Salt Lake Bees play-by-play announcer Steve Klauke will retire as voice of the Bees following the 2023 season. Adam Fondren, Deseret Information
Steve Klauke has been a mainstay within the Utah sports activities radio scene for 3 a long time.
This can be his last 12 months because the Salt Lake Bees’ play-by-play broadcaster, although, as he introduced Friday he'll retire from the function on the finish of the 2023 season.
Klauke, a three-time Utah Sportscaster of the Yr award winner, has been the voice of the Triple-A group Bees since 1994 (then often known as the Buzz) and has known as greater than 4,000 video games for the staff.
“As I enter my twenty ninth season, I've determined that now's one of the best time to hold up the microphone. I need to thank the followers for his or her help and hope everybody has had as a lot enjoyable listening as I've had broadcasting,” Klauke mentioned in a press release. “I'm wanting ahead to calling the 2023 season and taking one final journey across the league.”
The Chicago native will proceed to work because the radio voice for Weber State soccer and males’s basketball, in response to a press launch. He has served because the Wildcats’ broadcasting voice since 2015.
Klauke got here to Utah in 1991 to work as a pregame, halftime and postgame present host for the Utah Jazz and has labored on sport broadcasts for quite a lot of Utah sports activities groups, together with the College of Utah, Utah Grizzlies and Utah Flash.
He was named the Utah Sportscaster of the Yr in 1995, 2014 and 2016.
Klauke additionally has labored on sport broadcasts for the Los Angeles Angels, the Bees’ Main League Baseball father or mother membership and the Toronto Blue Jays.
The Bees will start their 2023 season on March 31 with a three-game sequence in opposition to the Sacramento River Cats. Klauke’s last sport for the Bees is scheduled for Sept. 24.
“Steve is an icon within the Utah media market and, for my part, one of the best play-by-play announcer in baseball at any degree,” Bees president Marc Amicone mentioned in a press release. “I'll miss listening to his voice on the airwaves throughout Bees video games. We want him all one of the best in his upcoming retirement and look ahead to seeing Steve and Sue on the ballpark as followers within the upcoming years.”