ABOUT JOHN LEAHY
WHAT'S NEW:
Now on sale, my second book! It is called "Calling the Shots". It is my autobiography to this point and how I came to work in the sports broadcasting business. Click on the link on my home page to purchase a copy!
I have begun a new venture here on the website at Leahy Enterprises... streaming of live sports events here at www.johnrleahy.com. It is a new concept with some fairly new technology. I will be posting the dates of upcoming events on the home page, so please stay tuned for those dates. Do you have a sports event that you would like to have streamed on the Internet? Contact me at jleahy14@comcast.net with details. I am always looking forward to broadcasting events! I am looking to do events from high school level on up. Internet access at your venue would be strongly preferred, but if possible the game could be streamed over the 3G cellular network if there is no Internet connection. In addition, I will also be doing some live music programming as well over the website. Stay tuned for details!
My first book, " Living A King's Life" is NOW ON SALE as well! 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. The book is now also available through www.barnesandnoble.com. The book will also be available on CD soon! More details as they occur.
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 . 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. John is also in his seventh season as a professional baseball play by play broadcaster, from 2005-07 with the North Shore Spirit of the Independent Can-Am League, 2008 and 2009 with the Kalamazoo Kings of the Frontier League, 2010 with the Florence Freedom, also of the Frontier League, and starting in 2011 with the Lowell Spinners of the New York Penn League on a part time basis.
From 2008 to 2010, 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.
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.
2012 BASEBALL SCHEDULE
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