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Roger Hoover recently finished his third season as the Director of Broadcasting and radio/television play-by-play announcer for the Jacksonville Suns, the Double-A affiliate of the Miami Marlins. The 2014 season marked his seventh broadcasting professional baseball. Hoover has spent the past six seasons broadcasting baseball in the Southern League, as a broadcasting assistant for the Tennessee Smokies (2009-10, 2012) and with the Suns (2011, 2013-present). His experience in the Southern League includes: providing play-by-play in the 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2014 Southern League Championship Series, working with baseball Hall of Famer and 2009 Smokies manager Ryne Sandberg, being a part of the radio coverage for the 2010, 2012, and 2013 Southern League All-Star Games, as well as coverage of the 2010 Rickwood Classic in Birmingham, Ala. The 2013 Southern League All-Star Game at Bragan Field in Jacksonville was Hoover’s third Southern League All-Star Game broadcast in a four-year stretch. Hoover is a graduate of the University of Tennessee and served his alma mater as the color analyst for Tennessee Baseball on the Vol Network in 2012. He has broadcast college basketball for the past five years for Maryville College, Carson-Newman University, as well as fill-in work for the University of Alabama. Hoover is also an Associate Producer of Chicago Cubs Spring Training webcasts since 2011. Hoover, a native of Kingsport, Tenn., spent his first season broadcasting professional baseball in his hometown with the Kingsport Mets of the Appalachian League in 2008. Hoover began his broadcasting career in 2006 with the Vol Network at the University of Tennessee.

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Total articles 15

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  Let’s Encrypt Powers Confluent Cloud to Automate Its Certificate Operations

  By Roger Hoover, Emmanuel Bertrand, Shahzeb Patel

  Aug. 10, 2023

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  Why Confluent? The Largest Kafka Service in the World

  By Roger Hoover, Nitin Muddana

  May. 10, 2023

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  Preston & Stanton Harris Win Lake Norman, NC Open April 15, 2023 - The Bass Cast

  By Brian Carter, Will Mitchell Verified, Roger Hoover, Shane Ireland Sharpe

  Apr. 18, 2023

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