He listens intently to the public-address announcer and asks Moore or other family members gathered around him for scoring updates or play descriptions.
I rarely lingered in play descriptions, because the more I talked about them, I figured, the more one could find things to dislike.
When Summerall is healthy, you hear his baritone, terse play descriptions and quick set-ups for Madden, which clear the way for him to ramble, as he did Sunday, about Giants left guard Glenn Parker: "A lot of linemen can get out in open space, but they have trouble finding someone to have contact with.
Within seven or eight days she received a letter giving play-by-play description of a baseball game.
Thomas's end of the conversation went out on the air for a few moments, then he turned back to his play-by-play description.
The New Yorker, April 6, 1940 P. 13 Louis G. Cameron, of Seattle, had his appendix removed over a statewide radio hookup, with a play-by-play description by Dr. Edwin A. Nixon of the Washington State Medical Association.
His play-by-play description of the match, between Shelby Rogers of the United States and Monique Adamczak of Australia, was being streamed on the Internet by his company, RadioTennis.com, to perhaps 1,500 tennis fans around the globe.
He landed a job as a sportscaster at station WOC in Davenport, Iowa, by delivering entirely from memory an exciting play-by-play description of a Eureka College football game.
— Jeff Gordinier So You Want to Be a Sommelier: In honor of the start of baseball season, Levi Dalton offers a play-by-play description of life on the dining room floor.
By Ernest LaFrance and Wolcott Gibbs The New Yorker, April 6, 1940 P. 13 Louis G. Cameron, of Seattle, had his appendix removed over a statewide radio hookup, with a play-by-play description by Dr. Edwin A. Nixon of the Washington State Medical Association.
