{"id":242626,"date":"2026-07-13T22:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242626\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T22:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:21:07","slug":"phillies-dan-baker-set-to-announce-third-all-star-game-in-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242626\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies&#8217; Dan Baker set to announce third All-Star game in 50 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; The voice of Phillies legend Dan Baker will soon boom throughout the ballpark at the 2026 MLB All-Star Game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It marks a historic third time that he has announced the All-Star game, dating back to 1976.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Baker has been the public address announcer for the Philadelphia Phillies since 1972.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In our conversation, he took pride in recalling the Phillies&#8217; All-Stars from 1976, 1996, and 2026 by heart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Baker hopes to work another six years at least, reaching a milestone 60th year announcing with the Phillies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He is currently the longest-tenured active public address announcer in baseball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Watch the video above to hear more of Dan&#8217;s thoughts on this special time in Philadelphia history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/videoClip\/19450052\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RELATED: America 250: Watch history come to life on Independence Mall<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From History Makers to musical performers, watch this illustration of America&#8217;s 250th birthday unfold on Independence Mall.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; The voice of Phillies legend Dan Baker will soon boom throughout the ballpark at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[103996,103995,46435,2358,19354,101616,103993,1423,69,71,70,8740,103994],"class_list":["post-242626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-103996","tag-103995","tag-46435","tag-2358","tag-50-years","tag-all-star-game","tag-dan-baker","tag-mlb","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-phillies","tag-public-address-announcer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}