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Scott Franzke earns 5-year extension with Phillies

Photo by Dealphungo (Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0)

The Phillies have agreed to a five-year extension with radio play-by-play voice Scott Franzke, reports CBS Philly.

Franzke will open his 11th season of play-by-play radio broadcasting in 2017; he has been with the Phils for 12 years.

“We couldn’t be happier to extend our relationship with Scott,” said David Buck, the Phillies’ senior vice president of marketing and advertising sales. “He and Larry Andersen have been entertaining Phillies fans for over a decade and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.”

Read our interviews with Franzke from 2009 and 2010.

(Franzke photo by Dealphungo – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25437291)

Tim Malcolm

Tim first found the Phillies as a little infant at Veteran’s Stadium, cheering on a Juan Samuel game-winning home run in his very first game. With the pinstripes in his blood, he witnessed Terry Mulholland’s 1990 no-hitter, “Steve Carlton Night” at the Vet, game three of the 1993 World Series, countless games during the charmed 2008 championship season and various road excursions. Since November 2007 Tim’s been writing about them daily at Phillies Nation, becoming one of the world’s most popular Phillies scribes. You can catch him on Twitter and Facebook, as well. When he’s not talking about the Phils he’s relaxing with a St. Bernardus ABT 12 or one of his many favored brews.