Josh Maurer
speaker
139 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 1 May
Josh Maurer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then the pandemic happened, and the minor league baseball season was canceled.
The major leagues ended up playing.
The minor leagues never did.
And I was waiting tables.
Really?
And I was about to turn 40 years old.
Yeah.
Our AAA baseball team in Pawtucket had turned its outfield grass into a somewhat full-service restaurant, which was, yeah.
And the boss of the team, who was Larry Lucchino, actually, said to all of us,
Hey, you know, you work for a baseball team, but there's no baseball, so you actually now work for a restaurant if you'd like to still be employed this summer.
So that's what I did.
I waited tables.
But it made me really kind of reaffirm my love for calling play-by-play and broadcasting because I missed it so much.
And then a year later, I got hired in Milwaukee.
I would have, but yeah, baseball was the first love and it was always the ultimate goal.
I grew up in Philadelphia and I listened to that Harry Callas and Richie Ashburn called the Phillies games.
And it was magical for me.
I, and I know this sounds cliche, but I did, I lay in bed at night starting probably when I was 11 or 12 years old and I would go to sleep listening to their voices and
as the soundtrack of my youth, and that's what formulated my love of sports, was listening to that.
And I knew at a pretty early age that I wasn't going to be good enough to be an athlete professionally or do anything that actually had to do with playing the games.
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