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How To Call A Spring Training Game

Jeff Scott reading announcements in the press box at Camelback Ranch in Glendale, Arizona. (Casey Kuhn/KJZZ)
Jeff Scott reading announcements in the press box at Camelback Ranch in Glendale, Arizona. (Casey Kuhn/KJZZ)

Baseball’s opening day is coming up on Sunday, but fans have been getting early taste of the action at spring training. At the Cactus League in Arizona, the regulars play and new faces from the minor leagues get to prove their worth. That ever-rotating lineup is just one challenge public address announcers face in the stadium’s press box. But as Casey Kuhn from Here & Now contributor KJZZ found, that voice belongs to some of the sports’ biggest fans.

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