ABOUT JOHN LEAHY
WHAT'S NEW: My new book, " Living A King's Life" is NOW ON SALE! Before the 2009 baseball season started, I was committed to write a book about minor league baseball and broadcasting. It was my hope that I could shed some light on what it is like to experience life on the road with a minor league team and what it is like. Living A King's Life is my account of the 2009 Kalamazoo Kings season as seen from the broadcast booth. It is a day by day diary of my year in 2009 with the Kings and what it was like. If you are interested in learning more about the book, please feel free to visit http://www.publishamerica.net/product92257.html.
John Leahy is a broadcasting professional with fifteen years of play-by-play experience in the sports field. He is currently the voice of Merrimack College ice hockey as well as the Florence Freedom professional baseball club . Merrimack College, located in North Andover MA, competes with nine other colleges including Boston College, Boston University, Northeastern, New Hampshire, Vermont, Providence, UMass Lowell, UMass (Amherst), and Maine, to form Hockey East, the most elite college hockey conference in the world today. During the 2005-06 season John appeared on ESPNU as a rinkside reporter at a Merrimack home game against the Maine Black Bears. Merrimack hockey broadcasts can be heard live here. The Florence Freedom play in the Frontier League of professional baseball and play in a twelve team league, with franchises in Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana.
In 2008 and 2009, John provided the voice-overs for Boston's prestigious Shattuck Awards, an annual media event that is one of Boston's premier award shows
John was also the voice of Merrimack College men's and women's basketball in the 2006-2007 season, broadcasting the home games over the Internet on ne-10.tv, a pay-per-view online Internet site, and the official webcasting home of the Northeast-10 conference.
On November 27, 2007, John was behind the mike for his first ever Division 1 basketball game at the Dunkin Donuts Center in Providence, RI, as the Maine Black Bears took on the Providence Friars. He filled in on WVOM, the Maine radio station, as a replacement for the regular play-by-play announcer, Ron Lisnet.
From 2005-2007, John was the voice of the North Shore Spirit baseball team in the Can-Am Professional Baseball League, based in Lynn, MA. They competed with the Brockton Rox, the Quebec City Capitales, the Nashua Pride, the Worcester Tornadoes, the New Haven County Cutters, the New Jersey Jackals, the Sussex County (NJ) Skyhawks, the Atlantic City Surf, and the Can-Am Grays. The games were aired on 1510 AM (The Zone) in Boston.
John has
also done play-by-play for the
Yawkey
League of Boston on the Comcast television network. The Yawkey League is
comprised of collegiate level baseball teams located in the metropolitan Boston
area with franchises blanketing the entire metro region.
John's initial broadcast experiences were rooted in high
school play-by-play, covering Stoughton (MA) High School hockey, football, and
basketball for ten years. He's also covered
sports in the Massachusetts towns of Mansfield, Canton, Brookline, and Saugus,
for community access local cable. He is a long standing member of the
American Sportscasters Association as well as the Sportscasters Talent
Agency of America.
2010 FLORENCE FREEDOM SCHEDULE (All times Eastern).
All games broadcast live on 106.7 FM and online at www.1067wnkr.com.
Each broadcast begins 15 minutes prior to the first pitch with a pre-game show. Times listed are the start times of each game (after pre-game show).
All Times Eastern.
| DATE | OPPONENT | TIME | AUDIO LINK |
| 5/21 | @ Gateway | 8:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 5/22 | @ Gateway | 8:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 5/23 | @ Gateway | 4:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 5/25 | SOUTHERN ILLINOIS | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 5/26 | SOUTHERN ILLINOIS | 11:05 AM | LISTEN |
| 5/27 | SOUTHERN ILLINOIS | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 5/28 | EVANSVILLE | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 5/29 | EVANSVILLE | 6:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 5/30 | EVANSVILLE | 6:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/2 | OAKLAND COUNTY (DH) | 6:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/3 | OAKLAND COUNTY | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/4 | @ Traverse City | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/5 | @ Traverse City | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/6 | @ Traverse City | 5:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/8 | OAKLAND COUNTY | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/9 | OAKLAND COUNTY | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/10 | OAKLAND COUNTY | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/11 | TRAVERSE CITY | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/12 | TRAVERSE CITY | 6:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/13 | TRAVERSE CITY | 6:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/14 | @ Normal | 8:00 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/15 | @ Normal | 8:00 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/16 | @ Normal | 8:00 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/17 | RIVER CITY | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/18 | RIVER CITY | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/19 | RIVER CITY | 6:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/20 | NORMAL | 6:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/21 | NORMAL | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/22 | NORMAL | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/23 | @ Evansville | 7:35 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/24 | @ Evansville | 7:35 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/25 | @ Evansville | 7:35 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/26 | SOUTHERN ILLINOIS | 6:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/27 | SOUTHERN ILLINOIS | 6:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/28 | SOUTHERN ILLINOIS | 11:05 AM | LISTEN |
| 6/29 | @ Lake Erie | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/30 | @ Lake Erie | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/1 | @ Lake Erie | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/2 | @ Washington | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/3 | @ Washington | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/4 | @ Washington | 6:35 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/6 | LAKE ERIE | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/7 | LAKE ERIE | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/8 | LAKE ERIE | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/9 | WASHINGTON | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/10 | WASHINGTON | 6:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/11 | WASHINGTON | 6:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/16 | @ Evansville | 7:35 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/17 | @ Evansville | 7:35 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/18 | @ Evansville | 2:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/19 | @ Southern Illinois | 8:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/20 | @ Southern Illinois | 8:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/21 | @ Southern Illinois | 8:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/22 | EVANSVILLE | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/23 | EVANSVILLE | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/24 | EVANSVILLE | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/25 | @ River City | 6:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/26 | @ River City | 8:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/27 | @ River City | 8:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/28 | NORMAL | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/29 | NORMAL | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/30 | NORMAL | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/31 | GATEWAY | 6:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/1 | GATEWAY | 6:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/2 | GATEWAY | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/3 | @ Southern Illinois | 8:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/4 | @ Southern Illinois | 8:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/5 | @ Southern Illinois | 8:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/6 | @ River City | 8:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/7 | @ River City | 8:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/8 | @ River City | 6:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/10 | KALAMAZOO | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/11 | KALAMAZOO | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/12 | KALAMAZOO | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/13 | WINDY CITY | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/14 | WINDY CITY | 6:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/15 | WINDY CITY | 6:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/17 | @ Kalamazoo | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/18 | @ Kalamazoo | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/19 | @ Kalamazoo | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/20 | @ Windy City | 8:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/21 | @ Windy City | 8:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/22 | @ Windy City | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/24 | GATEWAY | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/25 | GATEWAY | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/26 | GATEWAY | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/27 | RIVER CITY | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/28 | RIVER CITY | 6:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/29 | RIVER CITY | 6:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/31 | @ Gateway | 7:35 PM | LISTEN |
| 9/1 | @ Gateway | 7:35 PM | LISTEN |
| 9/2 | @ Gateway | 7:35 PM | LISTEN |
| 9/3 | @ Normal | 8:00 PM | LISTEN |
| 9/4 | @ Normal | 8:00 PM | LISTEN |
| 9/5 | @ Normal | 6:00 PM | LISTEN |
| PLAYOFFS TBD | - | - | - |