{"id":61826,"date":"2021-10-11T23:36:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T23:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61826"},"modified":"2021-10-11T23:36:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T23:36:35","slug":"jeremiah-paprocki-becomes-cubs-first-african-american-public-address-announcer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61826","title":{"rendered":"Jeremiah Paprocki becomes Cubs\u2019 first African American public-address announcer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/cubs\/2021\/5\/17\/22439839\/cubs-jeremiah-paprocki-becomes-cubs-first-african-american-public-address-announcer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Jeremiah Paprocki becomes Cubs\u2019 first African American public-address announcer<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Chicago Sun-Times<\/a><br \/>\n2021-05-17<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Russ_Dorsey1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Russell Dorsey<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/cubs\/2021\/5\/17\/22439839\/cubs-jeremiah-paprocki-becomes-cubs-first-african-american-public-address-announcer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/gyKJ_jqKgGhlTC0SPhtSHkA76eM=\/0x0:2268x1280\/2420x1613\/filters:focal(748x163:1110x525):format(webp)\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/69298874\/Screen_Shot_2021_05_17_at_1.02.00_AM.0.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jtheannouncer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeremiah Paprocki<\/a> is the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago_Cubs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cubs\u2019<\/a> first Black <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_address_system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PA<\/a> announcer and at the age of 21 also becomes one of the youngest in baseball. <em>Photo courtesy of the Chicago Cubs<\/em><\/small><\/figure>\n<p>Many fans dream of having their voices echo around historic <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wrigley_Field\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wrigley Field<\/a> while reading the names of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cy_Young_Award\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cy Young Award<\/a> winners, MVPs and future Hall of Famers.<\/p>\n<p>One lifelong <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago_Cubs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cubs<\/a> fan is getting a chance to do just that.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a booming new voice in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lake_View,_Chicago#Wrigleyville\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wrigleyville<\/a>, and it belongs to 21-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jtheannouncer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeremiah Paprocki<\/a>. The Cubs hired Paprocki to be their new public-address announcer, making him the first African American in team history to hold the position. He also is thought to be the youngest <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_address_system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">P.A.<\/a> announcer in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Major_League_Baseball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Major League Baseball<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/cubs\/2021\/5\/17\/22439839\/cubs-jeremiah-paprocki-becomes-cubs-first-african-american-public-address-announcer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a booming new voice in Wrigleyville, and it belongs to 21-year-old Jeremiah Paprocki. The Cubs hired Paprocki to be their new public-address announcer, making him the first African American in team history to hold the position. He also is thought to be the youngest P.A. announcer in Major League Baseball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,20],"tags":[7947,3027,32120,10333,5488,32121,30952,32119,7222,20372],"class_list":["post-61826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-baseball","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicago-sun-times","tag-illinois","tag-jeremiah-paprocki","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-russell-dorsey","tag-sports","tag-the-chicago-sun-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61827,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61826\/revisions\/61827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}