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...starting Oct. 4, 8 p.m. EDT). For baseball fans, it's all CBS from now on. Jack Buck and Dick Stockton will handle the play-by-play for the network's first postseason coverage in 40 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 8, 1990 | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

...statistician's play-by-play report may have come the closest to capturing the incredible nature of the string...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: The Lost Weekend? | 3/8/1989 | See Source »

When all roads lead to Kansas City and the Final Four in the book's final pages, the reader has already struggled through enough game stories and play-by-play to fill the sports pages of The Boston Globe. Fifty times...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: A Season Inside | 12/10/1988 | See Source »

Welcome to Fantasy Play-by-Play. "Ever since the first baseball broadcast, fans have said, 'That bum doesn't know what he's talking about. I can do better than that,' " says Fantasy founder Fred Greene, 33, a rabid A's fan who last season brought his dream to life in a box overlooking first base at the Oakland Coliseum. For $50, any Tom, Dick or would-be Harry Caray can announce a full inning of baseball with all the electronic panoply of a network broadcast booth. And this year for the first time -- at a premium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: How About Those Announcers? | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

Beginning with their criticism of Quayle's failure to answer the opening question, the 15 voters in the Heitger living room provided play-by-play commentary. As soon as Quayle mentioned the pollution in Boston Harbor, Donna McManus, the wife of a policeman, exclaimed, "That's the same as the campaign ad." After an artful Bentsen attack on Bush's ties to Panamanian General Manuel Noriega, Betty Heitger whispered to her husband, "You've got to admit, this guy is very skilled." Halfway through the debate, even the strong Bush partisans were dismayed as Quayle seemed to derail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How It Plays In Toledo | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

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