Even on a sticky August afternoon, he appears unruffled, wearing neatly pressed marine-blue slacks and a black polo shirt. While chatting, the bespectacled Sandusky relaxes his tall, lanky frame in a steel chair, sipping bottled water. On the very night I had lost my last thread of hope and was ready to quit, my Mom gave me the gift of confidence and encouragement.” “You go back to that moment,” Sandusky says. His mother, Ruth, who died in 1985 of lung cancer, knew about her son’s broadcasting aspirations. At home, there was a present waiting for him: a white gooseneck lamp with a red bow and a card: “I hope this light shines a little light on your dreams. He returned to his parents’ house unsure what his next career move would be. He realized he was at turning point in his life. As he drove home from his pool job one evening, he felt stuck. Although he had majored in finance and economics in college, a visit to the school’s football broadcast booth had bitten him with the sports announcing bug. In 1983, after graduating from Towson University, he was living with his parents in Florida, working as a part-time pool boy, and trying (unsuccessfully) to break into broadcasting.
But true to his unflappable nature, the longtime WBAL sportscaster quickly regains his composure and continues his story.
His eyes well with tears as he reflects on a particularly meaningful memory of his mother, a pivotal day that changed the course of his life.
Gerry Sandusky, the super-smooth voice of the Ravens, is sitting at an outdoor table at the Rotunda in Hampden on steamy summer day.
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