Sport: How About Those Announcers?

A new service puts fans behind the mike for an inning of action

Two out, bottom of the first, no score. Here's Canseco, who homered off Hurst in Game 1. The left-hander sets and deals. Canseco swings and it's hit deep to center, way back . . . Home run, Jose ("Can You See") Canseco! A's lead the Sox, 1-0!

What a blast. Every baseball fan's fantasy is to be Jose Canseco, launching a 500-ft. moon rocket in the fourth game of the American League Championship * Series. But what's the next best thing to doing it? Why, calling it, of course.

Welcome to Fantasy Play-by-Play. "Ever since the first baseball broadcast, fans have...

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