"The pitch on the way. It's a long drive into center field!
It's way back! Way back! It could be! It might be!
It is! A home run! Holy cow!
The fans are streaming onto the field!"
They’re the storytellers of those warm summer nights, for kids of all ages who never had the chance to get near a major league ballpark, but instead cradle radios against their ears to hear the calls of America’s favorite pastime – baseball.
PlayByPlayMen and the art of the perfect call is a documentary film devoted to those radio broadcasters who dedicate their lives to making that perfect call. With their hearts in radio, their faces on television, come sit beside them in the press box for an insider’s look at the art and craft of the play-by-play, called by some of the most well-known baseball announcers of all time: voice of the Detroit Tigers and Radio and Baseball Hall of Fame’s Ernie Harwell, six-time winner of Sportscaster of the Year, Chicago Cubs’ Pat Hughes, two-time winner of Washington’s Sportscaster of the Year, Seattle Mariners Hall of Famer Dave Neihaus, Red Sox play-by-play-man for a record twenty-five years Joe Castiglione, former MLB player, Detroit Tigers announcer Jim Price, and Baltimore Orioles own Joe Angel.
Peppered with audio clips of some of the most famous play-by-play calls ever heard in baseball, PlayByPlayMen and the art of the perfect call is a grand slam for every fan of the game, past, present, and future.
