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The senior Griffith owned the Senators until his death in 1955; upon his death, the team passed into the hands of Calvin, who had worked his way up through a variety of positions with the team, starting as a batboy, minor league player and manager (serving a brief stint under Joe Engel and the Chattanooga Lookouts at Engel Stadium), and front-office executive.
Prior to joined the Reds broadcast team, he called games for the Louisville Bats, Peoria Chiefs, Chattanooga Lookouts, Chattanooga Mocs men's basketball, NCAA Division II men's basketball semifinal championships, Louisville Cardinals football, men's basketball, women's basketball, Bellarmine University, and called the 2009 NCAA Women's national championship game.
Despite starting the 1995 season with a record of twelve wins and one loss and a 3.33 earned run average in 127.0 innings pitched for the Reds' then-AA affiliate, the Chattanooga Lookouts, Kramer was traded to the Detroit Tigers midway through the season, finishing out the season pitching for then-AAA affiliate Toledo.