SALEM BUCCANEERS HIRE PAUL AS NEW RADIO VOICE

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 24, 1993                   TAG: 9302240006
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B7   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Jack Bogaczyk
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SALEM BUCCANEERS HIRE PAUL AS NEW RADIO VOICE
Stu Paul, who has called professional baseball in three leagues in the past four seasons, has been hired as the new voice of the Salem Buccaneers.
Paul, 34, will be the Bucs' director of broadcasting. He replaces Mike Minshall, who left the Carolina League club after two seasons to become the play-by-play man for Quad Cities in the Class A Midwest League.
Sam Lazzaro, the Buccaneers' vice president and general manager, said Paul was chosen from more than 80 applicants. Paul, who also will work in sales, was a finalist for the announcing job in 1988, when Dave Newman began a three-year stint, and when Minshall got the job in 1991.
"Stu sent us a tape after we already had listened to about 80 of them," Lazzaro said. "We liked his work before, but we were looking for more experience. We're getting a good broadcaster."
Paul is a native and resident of New York City. He called games last season for Eugene (Ore.) in the Class A Northwest League. After working as a disc jockey and sports director at several radio stations in upstate New York and New England, he moved into baseball play-by-play in 1989 at Hagerstown, Md., of the Class AA Eastern League.
Paul spent two seasons with the Suns, then in 1991 called Class AA Southern League games at Jacksonville, Fla.
The Buccaneers' 140-game schedule will be broadcast for the seventh straight season and sixth on WROV (1240 AM). Salem's season opens April 8 at Kinston.

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB