CINCINNATI —

This Saturday, broadcasting legend Marty Brennaman will get his very own statue on Crosley Terrace, right between his good friends Joe Morgan and Pete Rose.

Brennaman has countless memories of his nearly five decades in the Reds broadcasting booth, but this honor will be the exclamation point on his storybook career. Advertisement

Even the biggest baseball fans probably do not know that Brennaman wanted to be an actor, not a broadcaster.

"I still say today that one of the great highs in my life is being on stage, live theater, with an audience out there watching you do your thing. And my mom and dad put me in touch with two guys who worked off-Broadway that were starving to death. I decided then, no pun intended, that I didn't have the stomach for it that I thought I did,

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