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- <title>
- Mar. 22, 1993: Attention, Giants Fans!
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 22, 1993 Can Animals Think
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 26
- SOCIETY
- Attention, Giants Fans!
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- <body>
- <p>San Francisco makes history by hiring the first woman announcer
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- <p> While the San Francisco Giants were in the Arizona desert
- working off their winter flab, back home in Candlestick Park a
- little bit of history was unfolding. Five hundred candidates
- turned up for open auditions to become the team's new stadium
- announcer, but none of the dozens of experienced sports
- broadcasters vying for the plum platform got the nod. Instead
- the Giants will start a rookie--a legal secretary from Walnut
- Creek, California. On opening day, April 5, Sherry Davis will
- become the first woman ever to be a full-time pro baseball
- announcer. The pay: $75 a game. Davis, a longtime baseball buff
- with training in TV-commercial voice-overs, has a smooth
- delivery the front office hopes fans will prefer to the gab
- prevalent around the league.
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- </body>
- </article>
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