Days after addressing Beloit College’s class of 2025 as commencement speaker, Joe Davis ’10 won his first Sports Emmy award for his national sports broadcasting work with Fox Sports and FS1.
Joe Davis ’10 was the only baseball play-by-play announcer nominated for the Outstanding Personality/Play-by-Play Award. The other nominees were Mike Tirico, Ian Eagle, Noah Eagle, and Mike Breen. The award was announced May 20, fewer than two weeks after the May 11 ceremony on Beloit’s campus.
Davis is in his 10th season on the Los Angeles Dodgers’ broadcast team, and his ninth season as the lead play-by-play announcer for the team. In 2022, Davis was named the lead announcer for Major League Baseball on Fox, replacing Joe Buck. He has been calling play-by-play on Fox Sports’ national coverage of pro and college football, Major League Baseball and college basketball since 2014.
In 2015 Davis was hired by the Los Angeles Dodgers to call road games, and succeeded legendary Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully in 2017 to become the voice of the Dodgers.
While at Beloit College, Davis was a four-year letter winner and two-time captain of the football team. He was the voice of Beloit College Buccaneer spring sports for three years, providing the play-by-play on local radio and television for baseball as well as men’s and women’s basketball.
While still a student, Davis landed a summer job with the Schaumburg Flyers baseball team and served as the team’s play-by-play voice and media relations director. His next break came when he received a phone call during a class in the Beloit College World Affairs Center with a job offer to call games for the Montgomery Biscuits, the Double-A affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays.
Davis earned a bachelor’s degree in communications with a minor in journalism, graduating from Beloit in 2010. In 2012, at the age of 24, he was named Southern League Broadcaster of the Year, and made the jump to national television joining ESPN as an announcer for college baseball, basketball, football, hockey, and softball, and filling in for Major League Baseball radio broadcasts.
Stephen Nelson, who’s younger than Davis by a year, called the Dodgers games while he was at the Sports Emmys ceremony in New York this week.
May 22, 2025
