Key Highlights
- So happy for you. Just a sampling of the daily text messages that aspiring play-by-play man Luke Brennaman receives from his baseball hall-of-fame broadcasting grandfather, who even Luke affectionately calls Marty.
- The texts are equal parts educational, entertaining, critical and complimentary – and 100 percent Marty Brennaman. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementLuke Brennaman has gone all in on being a Brennaman.
- And so Marty and Luke’s dad, broadcaster Thom Brennaman, have gone all in on helping the third member of their family try to reach his goal of becoming a big-league broadcaster someday. That journey continues Monday night in Miami, where 20-year-old Luke will call the national championship game between the Indiana Hoosiers and Miami Hurricanes for IU’s student radio station.
- Luke, a Mariemont High graduate, is a junior in IU's broadcasting program.
- He is the student radio station's co-sports director and also does work for the student television station. Marty and Thom will be intently tuned into WIUX-FM 99.1, excited to hear the next step in Luke's journey to potentially making the Brennamans just the second family to have at least three generations of big-league baseball broadcasters.