Tampa Bay Spanish radio broadcaster, Enrique Oliu has been a witness to almost every great play Devil Rays have turned at Tropicana Field, ever since he joined the broadcast crew in 1999. Oliu, a native of Nicaragua, has been blind since birth. He fell in love with baseball as a child and followed games via his small transistor radio.

He became a student of the game along the way by studying the theories of sport and playing baseball. He got his first chance to call a game when he appeared with the Minor League Jacksonville Expos, calling one inning of play-by-play and three innings of colour commentary in 1989. He also worked 20 games as the colour analyst for the St. Petersburg Pelicans of the Senior Professional Baseball League.

As the colour analyst, Oliu teams with play-by-play man Jose Rafael Colmenares, a native of Venezuela, and provides insight and analysis to Colmenares' calls. He prepares daily on a specially designed computer by reading stories online, researching current statistics and trends, and simply talking baseball with players and managers from the home and visiting teams.

Oliu's uncanny ability to recognise where a pitched ball has been hit because of the sound it makes coming off the bat has surprised many. Call it a sixth sense combined with his second nature – baseball. Oliu knows the sport because he played it.

Devil Rays gave Oliu an audition as a Spanish radio broadcaster in 1999. He never looked back and has been in the job ever since. "The advantage is you get to meet people and maybe get the interview a little faster than another person would," Oliu said. "These players can say, 'I don't want to talk to a blind guy,' but once they get past that, they get inspired and we make good friends.”