Ray Scott
On June 17, 1919, Ray Eugene Scott was born in Johnstown, beginning a life that would find its defining shape in the world of sports broadcasting in the United States.
Scott was an American citizen whose professional identity rested on his work as a sports commentator. The record of his biography is spare in its particulars, yet it points clearly to a man whose occupation placed him at the intersection of athletic competition and the audiences who followed it. A sports commentator by trade, he belonged to a profession that depended on presence, timing, and an ability to translate the energy of competition into language that listeners and viewers could follow and feel.
Scott died on March 23, 1998, in a life that had opened in Johnstown and closed nearly seventy-nine years later. What the record preserves most firmly is his occupation: he was a sports commentator, and that work was the axis around which his public life turned. It is the role by which he is identified, and it stands as the concrete anchor of what is known about him.
Quotes by Ray Scott
I guess the weather has something to do with it, but you had a runner dead to rights at home, and you hop it up there and there's nothing you can really say about it, but it's part of the game.
It was just a slow start for us. We talked about it after the game, and we can't have it, and I could just about see it in warm-ups that we weren't really ready to play tonight.
Somebody that's 0-8 or someone 8-0, it doesn't make any difference, you have got to be ready to play in this conference.
We talked about coming out strong in the division and I'm pleased with how the guys have responded. They guys are playing hard and making the big plays at the right time.
We talked about it, and it puts us over .500 anyway. The kids have played well this weekend, and I really feel like they've turned the corner.
