Mario Impemba
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Mario Impemba (born March 18, 1963) is the Emmy Award Winning play-by-play voice of the Detroit Tigers on FSN Detroit. A graduate of Michigan State University and native of Sterling Heights, Michigan in the Metro Detroit area, Mario started out announcing games for the Peoria Chiefs single-A baseball club in 1987. Impemba also served as the sports director at WXCL Radio and the play-by-play voice of the Peoria Rivermen of the now-defunct International Hockey League during the 1987-88 season. From 1989 to 1990, Mario served as the voice of the Quad City Angels single-A team in Davenport, Iowa. In 1991, Impemba began calling games for the Tucson Toros of the Pacific Coast League. Impemba served as the radio and fill-in television play-by-play voice of the Anaheim Angels for seven seasons (1995-2001) before joining the FSN Detroit broadcast team in 2002. Mario is teamed up with commentator Rod Allen on Tiger telecasts.
Mario runs a weblog that features analysis and photo albums. It can be viewed at http://mario.mlblogs.com/
During the baseball offseason, Impemba is the official radio voice of the Oakland University Golden Grizzlies Men's Basketball team on WDTW (AM)(1310) as well as games on FSN Detroit.
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