Becoming a Sports Commentator
...xpressing of calling a ball by ball game and the way he always added maxims as part of his commentary. He would say things like “genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration and nothing succeeds like success”. These sayings resinated with me and I began collecting them everywhere I went. When our local Kiwanis Club decided to put on a cricket match, I was very excited at the possibilities that maybe I could try out my commentating skills. I can still remember it as if it was yesterday, I went up to my neighbor who was the announcer and ask him if I could call the game for five minutes. All the people present were familiar to me so I was just a little nervous. I remember it was the very last over of the match and my team was down by four runs with two balls to spare, it was the perfect foil. As I took the microphone the picture was painted beautifully for me and the words came out so easily, here comes Wallace, bowling to Carl Hooper and it the ball is caught by the wicket keeper, so now St John’s team is down by four ru...