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Falmouth Forum Series 2009-2010
"Athletes--today's role models good or bad?"
December 4, 2009 - Lillie Auditorium, 7:30 PM
Lectures are free and open to the public.
Carl Beane, "The Voice of Fenway"
Press Release
Lecture Abstract:
The basic premise of my talk will be that whether we want to admit it or not, today’s role models many times are athletes. This has been the case for decades, but now more than ever those who can do special things with a bat, ball, stick, racquet or club command the most attention. It can be very positive in learning lessons about dealing with life’s problems. In some cases, doing something that changed the world. Those types of things are good if not great. However, there are some kinds of behavior that cross the line. Inappropriate relationships, abusing drugs and or alcohol just to name a few. How does a parent or guardian deal with this? I will bring up some names of players who have thrilled and those who have disappointed us over the years from the 1920’s to now. We will praise the good ones and scold the bad ones. I will be happy to take questions after the talk and will have some memorabilia from some of those people.
Carl Beane is best known as The Voice of Fenway Park. He has been the Public Address Announcer at Fenway Park since 2003. He was fortunate enough in his second year to be able to announce the first two games of the World Series and to see the Red Sox become the Champions for the first time in 86 years. Once again in 2007 Carl had the great honor to announce the first two games of the 2007 World Series.
Carl was born and raised in Agawam, Massachusetts. He is a 1971 graduate of Agawam High School and a 1972 graduate of Career Academy School of Broadcasting. Carl knew at a very young age that he wanted to be a radio broadcaster.
Carl has been a Sports Radio Broadcaster since 1972. He has worked for a number of radio stations and also has done national updates for such outlets as ESPN radio, Sirius Satellite Radio, Westwood One, Associated Press, and MetroNetworks. Carl taught Sports broadcasting and Play-by-play classes at the Connecticut School of Broadcasting in Needham, MA until its untimely closing in March of 2009.
Carl's voice can be heard in "The Baseball Experience" at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.
A recent role for Carl is that of a national spokesman for The American Diabetes Association. Carl is also a narrator for Talking Books at the Perkins School for the Blind.
Admission to this Falmouth Forum presentation is free and open to the public. A buffet dinner is available before the lecture at 6:00 p.m. in the Swope Center located near the auditorium. Dinner tickets are $25 and must be purchased in advance at either Eight Cousins Children’s Books, Main Street, Falmouth, or at the MBL’s Communications Office in the Candle House in Woods Hole. Dinner seats are limited and tickets are only available until they sell out or until 5:00 on the Tuesday before the lecture. For more information, contact the MBL Communications Office at: (508) 289-7423 or
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