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The emcee and his wife Donna can be considered the commissioners of donkeyball. Working out of Westerville, Ohio, they breed and train the stars of the game—the dozen or so donkeys that travel with them through 36 states, “employees” of Buckeye Donkeyball.
“Three years ago, I got tired of sitting behind a desk” in a traditional job, Kunder recalled. The idea for Donkeyball came, he said, from his wife’s raising donkeys in her rural childhood, as well as his love for “traveling and meeting people.”
In addition to traveling and meeting people, he also gets to announce each game, while his wife helps out by rotating the donkeys used by batters and fielders. Kunder’s play-by-play style isn’t exactly Frank Giffoni’s or Howard Cosell’s, but its probably funnier—or at least as funny as some of the donkey antics he describes.
When Hitt’s brother Wayne began conversing with his donkey, in the sixth inning, Kunder engaged him in some verbal horseplay:
“Wayne, are you talkin’ to your donkey?” he asked. Wayne nodded.
“Is he listening?” Kunder followed. Wayne nodded again.
“Well let me tell you,” the emcee concluded, “one jackass doesn’t listen to another.”
Two innings earlier, Kunder announced, “Look at this? We’re playing
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