The Voice of the Swamp Bats

Joe Fitzhenry is in his first year of calling the Keene Swamp Bats on 

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Joe Fitzhenry

By the age of nine or ten years old, Joe knew he wanted to broadcast sports. A few years later, Joe knew he wanted to broadcast baseball. When it came time to select a college, the Saratoga Springs, NY native enrolled at Marist.

 At Marist, Joe served as sports editor at The Circle, the campus newspaper and, broadcast sports. Following internships with CBS Sports and writing for Bleacher Report, Joe broadcast games for the now-defunct Saratoga Brigade. “It was fun, I enjoyed that as well. It’s a good league, it’s well run and very organized people know what they are doing,” he said.

Joe didn’t idle when the Brigade closed shop. “I wanted to get some more experience this summer and I applied to the Swamp Bats and here we are.” There are games when Joe works solo, and other nights, he’s paired with a broadcaster for the opposing team.  As the season progresses, Joe works on his game and his attitude fits the NECBL motto. “Its high quality baseball and I get to live the dream and call baseball games.”

I kind of snuck up on Joe here.

Eventually, he’d love to do play-by-play for a major league team. “I know that takes time.  Just as with the players, you build your game at every level.”