Sherry Davis

{{Short description|American sports announcer}}

Sherry Davis was the stadium announcer for the San Francisco Giants baseball team from 1993 to 1999. Davis gained immediate attention for becoming the first full-time female stadium announcer for a major league baseball team.{{cite news|last=Warren|first=Jenifer|title=A Giant Hit : Sherry Davis Makes History as Major League Baseball's First Female Stadium Announcer|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-04-26-vw-27575-story.html|access-date=30 October 2012|newspaper=The Los Angeles Times|date=26 April 1993}} Davis, a legal secretary, won the job in an open audition, besting five hundred other candidates.{{cite news|title=Attention, Giants Fans!|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,978011,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081206125923/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,978011,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 6, 2008|accessdate=30 October 2012|newspaper=Time Magazine|date=22 March 1993}} When the Giants relocated from Candlestick Park to the newly constructed AT&T Park (originally named Pacific Bell Park), the Giants declined to renew her contract{{cite news|last=Beitiks|first=Edvins|title=Giants let Davis go as stadium P.A. announcer|url=http://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Giants-let-Davis-go-as-stadium-P-A-announcer-3052864.php|accessdate=30 October 2012|newspaper=The San Francisco Chronicle|date=30 December 1999}} and replaced her with Renel Brooks-Moon. Papers from Davis' tenure as announcer for the Giants are archived at the Baseball Hall of Fame.{{cite web|title=Finding Aids for Archival Collections|url=http://baseballhall.org/education/research/abner/finding-aids|publisher=Baseball Hall of Fame|accessdate=31 March 2013}}

In 2000, Davis became the announcer for the Saint Mary's College of California women's basketball program in Moraga, California.{{cite news|last=McManis|first=Sam|title=Former Giants P.A. Announcer Regains Her Voice at St. Mary's|url=http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Former-Giants-P-A-Announcer-Regains-Her-Voice-at-2693494.php#ixzz2An4A2iin|accessdate=30 October 2012|newspaper=The San Francisco Chronicle|date=1 December 2000}}

Davis was born and raised in Virginia,{{cite news|title=Sherry Davis|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sherry-davis/|accessdate=31 October 2012|newspaper=The Huffington Post}} and later graduated from College of Notre Dame of Maryland{{cite news|last=Clifford|first=James|title=Major League first: Ballpark announcer is a woman|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=19930312&id=4OUyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=kQcGAAAAIBAJ&pg=2380,2046371|accessdate=30 October 2012|newspaper=The Free Lance-Star|date=12 March 1993}} with a B.A. in Theater. She was an actress in the classics at the Norfolk Theatre Center, 1968–76, when it had taken over the old Norfolk Public Library (Carnegie, 1904).