Eric Collins is a play-by-play sports announcer, working primarily in baseball and softball. From 2009 through 2013, Collins served as the part-time television voice of the Los Angeles Dodgers, taking over the duties of Dodger radio voice Charley Steiner, who was the team's play-by-play announcer on road telecasts east of Denver. Collins' broadcasting experience including doing play-by-play on NBC Sports' coverage of the USA Baseball team during the 2008 Summer Olympics Games in Beijing, China, as well as calling ESPN's coverage of college football, college basketball, and college baseball and softball Super Regional tournaments and Women's College World Series games; part-time announcing for the Chicago White Sox in 2004 and 2008; and working in Minor League Baseball for the Schaumburg Flyers and Rochester Red Wings. He also worked as a sideline reporter for Chicago Bulls broadcasts from 1997 to 2002. Collins has broadcast every game of the World Cup of Softball on ESPN since its inception in 2005, with partner Michele Smith. In August 2010, The Big Ten Network announced that Eric Collins would handle play-by-play duties in college football and basketball. 

January 1st, 1969 in Cleveland (Age 55)