Mannies, who serves as Ball State’s play-by-play announcer for both football and men’s basketball, has broadcast more than 5,300 Ball State and high school games.

He began broadcasting Ball State games while a freshman at the university. He received his bachelor’s degree from Ball State in 1960 and his master’s from the university in 1964.

Mannies is a three-time winner of the Indiana Sportscaster of the Year Award and is a three-time recipient of the Mid-American Conference Sportscaster of the Year honor.

He has been inducted into the Ball State Athletics Hall of Fame, the MAC Hall of Fame, the Delaware County Hall of Fame and the Indiana Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame. Mannies was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame as its Silver Medal Award recipient in 2002.

Mannies will be inducted on Oct. 1 at The Fountains in Carmel.

Also being inducted are 1968 Ball State alum Tom Cochrun, who served as the main anchor at WTHR-TV in Indianapolis from 1986-95, and was news director at WISH-TV in Indianapolis from 2003-06; and Dick Baldwin, David Goodnow, Jimmy Mack and Anne Ryder.