Stephen Nelson, 33, will call 50 games in the upcoming season.
The Dodgers need a strong fill-in for their Dodgers' main play-by-play voice, Joe Davis, who is also Fox Sports' lead baseball announcer.No other MLB team has an Asian American broadcaster calling games. Nelson describes himself as a proud yonsei — fourth-generation Japanese American — who once used the Japanese he learned going to language school in the South Bay to help honor Shohei Otani at an awards event.
"Ultimately my goal in this industry is to further pave the way for people that look like us to find futures in sports," Nelson said.The Southern California native, 33, grew up mostly in Huntington Beach and graduated from Chapman University. He and his family — wife Cori Coffin, a news anchor and an 18-month-old boy — will relocate in the next couple months from New Jersey.Nelson grew up loving his father's favorite team, the Chicago White Sox.
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