baseball announcer

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A baseball announcer is a broadcaster who narrates baseball games for radio or television audiences.

The role requires knowledge of the sport's rules, history, and statistics, along with the ability to fill time during a slow-paced game.

Radio announcers must describe action listeners can't see; television announcers complement the visual broadcast.

The baseball announcer called the play-by-play for forty seasons.

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