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Metro Detroit broadcasting legend Frank Beckmann has died at the age of 72.

Frank Beckmann took over for a legend, Bob Ufer, on Michigan Football, and became a legend himself. Beckmann worked along side a Baseball Hall Of Famer, Ernie Harwell on Detroit Tigers games, and over a 52 year career, he also called Detroit Pistons and Red Wings games, too. Beckmann died this weekend. He was 72.

Frank Beckmann took over for a legend, Bob Ufer, on Michigan Football, and became a legend himself. Beckmann worked along side a Baseball Hall Of Famer, Ernie Harwell on Detroit Tigers games, and over a 52 year career, he also called Detroit Pistons and Red Wings games, too. Beckmann died this weekend. He was 72.

Frank Beckmann took over for a legend, Bob Ufer, on Michigan Football, and became a legend himself. Beckmann worked along side a Baseball Hall Of Famer, Ernie Harwell on Detroit Tigers games, and over a 52 year career, he also called Detroit Pistons and Red Wings games, too. Beckmann died this weekend. He was 72.

Frank Beckmann took over for a legend, Bob Ufer, on Michigan Football, and became a legend himself. Beckmann worked along side a Baseball Hall Of Famer, Ernie Harwell on Detroit Tigers games, and over a 52 year career, he also called Detroit Pistons and Red Wings games, too. Beckmann died this weekend. He was 72.

Frank Beckmann took over for a legend, Bob Ufer, on Michigan Football, and became a legend himself. Beckmann worked along side a Baseball Hall Of Famer, Ernie Harwell on Detroit Tigers games, and over a 52 year career, he also called Detroit Pistons and Red Wings games, too. Beckmann died this weekend. He was 72.

Metro Detroit broadcasting legend Frank Beckmann has died at the age of 72.

Passed away this evening at the age of 72. Next to Bob Ufer, the best PBP man we ever had. Rest in peace, Frank. LINK.

Frank Beckmann, 72, a fixture at WJR-AM (760) for 48 years, died February 12, 2022, of vascular dementia, according to his wife, Karen. (Neal Rubin – The Detroit News)

He was a mainstay on WJR for nearly half a century and the voice behind the microphone of University of Michigan football games for three decades.