Jim Flanagan

Long Beach, CA

Jim is the founder of Ballparkradio.com, which he started in 2003, as a companion website to his longstanding men’s fastpitch website, Fastpitchwest.com, in order to provides an easy to find place for fans to enjoy live and archived broadcasts of men’s fastball.  He learned the ropes on streaming audio from David Blackburn, back in 2001 when David was doing test broadcasts in preparation for the ISC World Tournament audio and video broadcast program.

Following his first solo broadcasts in 2003 at the NAFA World Series, he joined up with his friend Blair Setford and the rest of the crew to broadcast in 2004 to broadcast the ISC II Tournament of Champions, which they have been doing ever since.

Jim has broadcast more than 100 games, with games in Utah, Oregon, Florida, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Canada, the Bahamas, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, where he and Kyle Smith broadcast the ISF Jr. World Championships to more than 7,000 listeners. In 2009, at the invitation of tournament director Brian Ballie, Jim added the World Fastball Invitational in Monkton to the list of tournaments covered on Ballparkradio.

2009 was also the year that Ballparkradio expanded from audio only, to audio and video, as part of the ISC’s reorganized streaming broadcast program. Jim and longtime friend Blair Setford now share the program director duties for the ISC’s broadcast program, putting both the ISC World and ISC Tournament of Champions under one umbrella, and the Ballparkradio banner.

Jim starting playing fastpitch at the age of nine, and still pitches in the So Cal travel league and in Masters events, more than 40 years in uniform, including more than 20 World and National tournaments.

In real life, Jim is a lawyer at the Flanagan Law Firm in Long Beach California, having practiced for over 28 years. He comes from a large Irish family of seven children.

His inspiration to want to broadcast ballgames?  “That’s easy”, he says, “Vin Scully” (longtime broadcaster of the Los Angeles Dodgers, who is an honorary member of the Ballparkradio crew.) I grew up listening to him on a transistor radio as a kid and still enjoy his broadcasts today.  There are few constants in life like Vin.