Twenty-three years ago, Brendan Burke decided he wanted to be a sports broadcaster.
He was 9 years old and he was sitting between John Sterling and Michael Kay, then the Yankees’ radio team, as they broadcast a game at Fenway Park. His father, Don, was a sportswriter who covered the Yankees at the time and took his son with him to the game.
Burke immediately fell in love.
“I listened to them,” he said. “I found out from my dad that their job was to talk about sports … and they got paid for it.
“In that moment, that was when I knew what I wanted.