Dave Flemming
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David B. "Dave" Flemming is a baseball broadcaster.
He grew up in Alexandria, Virginia, listening to Jon Miller call Baltimore Orioles games. Now he calls games with Jon on the radio for the San Francisco Giants. In 2004, Flemming began his first full year in the Giants' radio booth, working with Miller, Duane Kuiper, Mike Krukow and Greg Papa.
Flemming received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Classics from Stanford University and a Master’s Degree in Broadcast Journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University. While at Stanford, Flemming broadcast Stanford baseball, men’s and women’s basketball and football and served as Sports Director at KZSU-FM. In 2000, he broadcast play-by-play for the Visalia Oaks and served as the assistant General Manager, before moving on to the Pawtucket Red Sox.
Flemming teamed with PawSox radio broadcaster Andy Freed for three seasons on the eight-station PawSox Radio Network. His rise in the baseball broadcasting industry was nearly unprecedented as he went from Class-A ball (Visalia) in 2000 to Triple-A from 2001-2003 (Pawtucket) and now the Major Leagues.
On May 28, 2006, Flemming had the chance for his voice to go into the Baseball Hall of Fame when he was set to call Barry Bonds' 715th home run, passing Babe Ruth for second place on the all-time home run list. However, as he was making the call, his microphone "inexplicably" went dead. Flemming, unaware of the problem, continued to make the call, but all listeners heard was about ten seconds of dead air. Then his broadcast partner, Greg Papa, stepped in to try to salvage the call. Only Duane Kuiper's call on Fox Sports Net's broadcast will be sent to the Hall of Fame.
Fortunately there were no technical problems on September 23rd of the same year. During Flemming's third inning call of a game against the Milwaukee Brewers at Miller Park, Bonds hit a home run off left-hander Chris Capuano. This was Bonds' 734th career homer (26th for the season), which broke Hank Aaron's record for National League home runs. (Aaron hit his last 21 homers as an American League player.)
Fellow broadcasters Krukow and Kuiper give Flemming a number of new nicknames each year. The most commonly used are "Flem" and "Flame."
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