Executive Vice President, Ballpark Entertainment, Promotions and Production
Chuck Morgan, one of the most recognizable public address voices in the game, is in his 48th year in professional baseball. The longtime Texas Rangers employee serves as the club’s public address announcer and coordinates with the in-game entertainment team on all scoreboard and video production for Rangers home games. In addition, Morgan contributes to the Rangers’ promotional schedule each year and serves in many capacities as a club ambassador. He has been with the Rangers for 43 of the last 44 seasons, beginning with the 1983 campaign.
Morgan has announced the starting lineups for 3,406 consecutive Major League Baseball games and has not missed a home game in Texas or Kansas City since he began in Major League Baseball 44 years ago. The microphone he used to announce his 3,000th consecutive game in September 2020 and for the 2020 World Series was added to the collection of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York.
With the Rangers, Morgan has been responsible for the creation of the Texas Rangers Baseball Hall of Fame and the Rangers’ mascot, and he is credited with creating the “Dot Race” at Rangers home games. In addition to his tenure with Texas, Morgan has worked for the Kansas City Royals (2002) and the Nashville Sounds (1978–1980). For six years, he was the public address announcer for Major League Baseball video games on Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo platforms.
While in Nashville, Morgan was an announcer on the Grand Ole Opry, hosted several nationally syndicated radio and television programs, and made multiple “cornfield” appearances on Hee Haw. Artists and rising performers alike enjoyed the relaxed atmosphere of his late-night radio show on WSM, where he interviewed major names in country music and hosted jam sessions and live performances by artists such as Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Barbara Mandrell, Charley Pride, and Marty Robbins, among many others. Last October, Morgan was invited back for the Grand Ole Opry’s 100th birthday celebration to provide a surprise on-stage introduction of Country Music Hall of Famer Ricky Skaggs.
In 1982, Morgan was named the Country Music Association’s Major Market Disc Jockey of the Year. In 2001 and 2003, The Sporting News recognized him as the best public address announcer in Major League Baseball. He was inducted into the Information Display and Entertainment Association Hall of Fame in 2017 and into the Texas Rangers Baseball Hall of Fame in 2021. Chuck and his wife, Starr, reside in Weatherford and have three sons—Kelley, Rhett, and Clay—and a daughter, Amanda, along with six grandsons and one granddaughter.