Franchester Martin Brennaman (born July 28, 1942) is an American retired sportscaster, best known for his long tenure as the play-by-play voice of Major League Baseball's Cincinnati Reds on the Cincinnati Reds Radio Network. Known for his opinionated, zealous, and sometimes contentious style, Brennaman called Reds games from 1974 to 2019. Early life A native of Portsmouth, Virginia, Brennaman attended Randolph-Macon College and the University of North Carolina, graduating from the latter institution with a communications degree in 1965. He began his broadcasting career at WGHP-TV in High Point, North Carolina, and followed with stints in Salisbury, North Carolina and Norfolk, Virginia. From 1970 to 1974 he called games for the Virginia Squires of the American Basketball Association. In 1971, Brennaman began his career as a baseball radio announcer for the Tidewater Tides (now Norfolk Tides), the then-New York Mets' affiliate in the International League (Class AAA). In 1973, Virginia Tech athletic director Frank O. Moseley hired Brennaman as the new voice of the Hokies. Brennaman was the first Tech broadcaster to call both football and basketball, but he left VT in 1974 to become the broadcaster for the Cincinnati Reds. Career Brennaman joined Joe Nuxhall on the Reds radio team in 1974. "Marty and Joe" became an institution in the city, appearing together in numerous radio and television commercials. Brennaman's trademark call of a Reds victory ("And this one belongs to the Reds!") was coined during his second game with the team. This same phrase was expected to be placed in lights, outside of the Great American Ball Park in 2003, but Hamilton County officials nixed the idea, citing that the ballpark belongs to the taxpayers and not the team.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/02/18/loc_redspark18.html|title=County balks on putting Brennaman's refrain on ballpark|last1=Erardi|first1=John|last2=Andrews|first2=Cindi|newspaper=The Cincinnati Enquirer|date=February 18, 2003|access-date=July 28, 2008|quote= The response from the county was, 'No, you can't put that up there. It doesn't belong to the Reds. It belongs to Hamilton County.'''}}</ref> Instead, only Nuxhall's signature signoff, "...Rounding third and heading for home." was used. On January 16, 2019, Brennaman announced he would retire following the 2019 season. He broadcast his final Reds game on September 26, 2019. Notable calls Hank Aaron's record-tying 714th career home run in 1974 (Brennaman's first regular season game as a Reds announcer) Tom Seaver's only no-hitter in 1978 when Seaver was a member of the Reds Pete Rose's record-breaking 4,192nd career hit in 1985 Tom Browning's perfect