STAA's Nick Anastos joins Dragons baseball booth

April 23, 2010 - PRLog -- Nick Anastos is adding affiliated baseball to his growing play-by-play resume. An STAA client, Anastos has joined the Dayton Dragons as No. 2 broadcaster and Assistant Media Relations Director.

The Class-A affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds, the Dragons are one of minor league baseball’s model franchises. They have led Class-A in attendance for 10 consecutive years; they hold the all-time Class-A single-season attendance record and have sold out 704 consecutive games. In Dayton, Anastos will be working alongside Dragons’ Broadcasting and Media Relations Director Tom Nichols. Nichols is entering his 23rd year in Minor League Baseball and has called over 2,700 games.

“I get to really learn how things are run at the top levels in terms of an organization in the minor leagues,” Anastos says. “This is one of the classier organizations at any level. To get to learn from Tom how things are run broadcasting wise and media relations wise, this was an opportunity I could not pass up.”

Each of Dayton’s past two No. 2 broadcasters has received No. 1 jobs the following season. Owen Serey joined the South Bend Silver Hawks in 2009 while Alex Vispoli recently joined the Winston-Salem Dash.

Anastos has spent the past two seasons as the basketball and baseball broadcaster at NCAA Division I University of Maryland-Eastern Shore while working as a graduate assistant in the university’s sports information department. He plans on continuing in those roles. Anastos has also broadcast baseball play-by-play in the independent Can-Am League. He spent last fall as the color analyst on Delaware State University football broadcasts.

The Dayton opportunity came about for Anastos when STAA learned Vispoli had departed. STAA CEO Jon Chelesnik introduced Anastos to Nichols.

“STAA has put me in contact with different people from different organizations and has increased my personal contacts,” Anastos says. “[Jon} always keeps me in the loop as to what may and may not be opening up. He also helped me put together a well-organized Talent Page that has helped employers get a feel for my skills and experience.”

Since becoming a client since 2006, Anastos has also regularly taken advantage of STAA’s talent coaching and attended STAA’s play-by-play seminar in Las Vegas in 2008.

“The talent coaching has given me different goals to work on, identified area for improvement, provided suggestions on how to make broadcasts more interesting and helped me improve my weaknesses,” Anastos says. “It has been very helpful.

“I appreciate all the work STAA has done. I know I couldn’t have done it without you.”

All 140 Dragons games will be heard on 1410 WING-AM ESPN Radio in Dayton.

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