Before that, he was a sports reporter for KMTR-TV in Eugene, Oregon. “Doing this job for a living really helped me come out of my shell a little bit.”įleishman worked at WCAX for more than a decade. “Sometimes I don’t talk to people until they talk to me,” he said.
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He was a sports producer in 2004 when the Red Sox won their first World Series since 1918.įleishman described himself as shy, adding that others laugh when he admits that.
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"The next thing you know, I was getting razzed at school the next day."įleishman went on to graduate from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, then worked for local TV news. But this is what I wanted to do, and this was getting a chance to do it," Fleishman said.
He was teased mercilessly at Framingham High School - he graduated in 1996 - for doing play-by-play of a girls volleyball game. His first foray into game coverage didn’t exactly go well. “My goal was to be a sportscaster in New England.” “Even though the (Boston) teams weren’t that good when I was growing up, the broadcasters were so legendary and they were just so good at what they did,” said Fleishman, 43. He’ll be using his long career as a broadcaster to tell stories, but it’s a bit different than the career of sports announcer he had imagined when he was young. Nevertheless, Fleishman had just begun a new job as a communications specialist at Gifford Healthcare in Randolph, Vermont.
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