Is Robert Fish from Philly? We don't have enough of those guys in the athletic department.
Actually he's a native Virginian. So obviously that makes him a much-better person than some "Philly guy."
Robert Fish
Radio Broadcaster
Biography:
Robert Fish is in his 11th season as the lead play-by-play announcer of the Richmond Braves. A native of West Point Virginia, Fish has been with the Braves since the 1996 season. He was selected to broadcast the 1999 Triple A All-Star game from New Orleans.
Fish began his broadcasting career in 1984 at WHAP in Hopewell, Virginia, and has worked at radio stations in Kilmarnock, Culpeper, and Williamsburg. Previous stops along the baseball trail sent him to Hampton, Virginia and Burlington, North Carolina as the Director or Broadcasting for the Virginia Generals of the Carolina League in 1988, and the same position with the Burlington Indians of the Appalachian League in 1989.
Prior to his arrival in Richmond, Fish worked for the flagship station of the University of Virginia sports network, WINA radio, as assistant sports director, sideline reporter for UVa Football, and women’s basketball play-by-play announcer.
Fish has also worked for Sportsradio 910 and the Virginia News Network as an afternoon sports anchor and talk show host in Richmond, as well as doing high school football and basketball play-by-play for stations WLEE 990/1480 and ESPN Radio 950.
Fish has done the radio play-by-play of the CAA basketball tournament as well, and also serves as the Director of Broadcast Services for the VCU Rams during the off-season, doing play-by-play for basketball on the Ram Replay television broadcast.
Fish is a 1983 graduate of the University of Evansville in Evansville, Indiana, and lives in Richmond with his wife Amy and their infant son Matthew William.
