Word: play-by-play
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...procedure was organized "like a military operation," says Rogers. "We had to plan where 70 people would stand, where to put two bypass machines and all kinds of monitoring equipment." Two operating tables were modified so they would swing apart when the twins were separated. A ten-page play-by-play book detailed each step of the operation. Five rehearsals were held, using life-size dolls attached at the head with Velcro...
Before Ronald Reagan achieved fame as a movie star in Hollywood, Dutch Reagan was an enormously popular baseball announcer and newspaper columnist in Des Moines, Iowa. Iowans followed the fortunes of the Chicago Cubs, and Dutch was their favorite play-by-play man. Yet Reagan had never seen a big-league ball game when he began broadcasting them and still hadn't after four years...
Marty Glickman, the longtime voice of the New York football Giants, has been signed to do play-by-play for the season. No color-commentator has been signed...
Through the power of the Cubs' international superstation WGN, a concrete mixer of a television play-by-play man named Harry Caray is the team's singular star. Even in spring training, he is sprinkled throughout the game with mash notes from customers who stir excitedly in anticipation of their favorite part of the show, his seventh-inning sing-along. Outfielder Gary Matthews can verify that the Cubs' appeal extends at least to Belize, a Central American country of 150,000, which receives the cable and recently requested a live float ornament for its Cub Mardi Gras. "Only...
...brightest spots of the afternoon came at the very start of the meet, which began once the Army-Navy football game concluded and the radio blaring the play-by-play was turned...