Veteran announcer flies often to call Mariners,
Giants, in Spanish

This story was published Friday, July 29th, 2005
By GEORGE ESTRADA, Associated Press Writer

SEATTLE (AP) - When Amaury Pi-Gonzalez was a boy in
Cuba, he would stand a broom upside down on his porch
and pretend to call baseball games. Now he's living
his dream in the radio announcer's booth in two
different major-league ballparks.

Pi-Gonzalez, 60, does Spanish-language play-by-play
for the Seattle Mariners and the San Francisco Giants,
which leads to lots of frequent flier miles.

"I know most of the pilots on Alaska Airlines,"
Pi-Gonzalez said.

Last weekend, Pi-Gonzalez, who lives in Fremont,
Calif., was in San Francisco calling Giants games.
This week he's in Seattle doing broadcasts for the
Mariners.

"The fact that he can do this dual broadcasting job is
incredible," said Marty Gonzalez, a weekend anchor for
KRON-TV in San Francisco and a longtime admirer of
Pi-Gonzalez. "He's doing two different teams in two
different leagues, which means he has to know every
player in major-league baseball."


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