Just as baseball players struggle and strive to move from the minor leagues to the majors, so do the announcers who call their games. Is the Omaha Storm Chasers the end of the line for Donny Baarns?
Donny Baarns prepares to call a spring training game for the Oakland A’s, part of a years-long journey he hopes will end in the major leagues, much like the players he observes.Caitlin O'Hara for The New York Times
MESA, Ariz. — His dream felt tantalizingly close.
He had broadcast more than 1,000 games in the minors. But now, out on the field, the Oakland A’s were playing the Cleveland Indians.