D-Backs first big-league team to broadcast in Navajo

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PHOENIX (AP) — Nearly 92 years after a major league game wasfirst broadcast on radio, the Arizona
Diamondbacks became the firstbig-league team to have its game broadcast in Navajo.Dan Arnoldand George
LaFrance had the play-by-play call of Saturday night’s gameagainst the Brewers on KTNN, a Navajo-language AM
station broadcastingfrom Window Rock in northern Arizona.Though the team saidSaturday’s game was the first
baseball game to be broadcast in Navajo,such broadcasts are not new to Phoenix area professional teams.
KTNNbroadcast Phoenix Suns games in Navajo during the 1990s.Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.PHOENIX (AP)
— Nearly 92 years after a major league game wasfirst broadcast on radio, the Arizona Diamondbacks became the
firstbig-league team to have its game broadcast in Navajo.Dan Arnoldand George LaFrance had the play-by-play
call of Saturday night’s gameagainst the Brewers on KTNN, a Navajo-language AM station broadcastingfrom
Window Rock in northern Arizona.Though the team saidSaturday’s game was the first baseball game to be
broadcast in Navajo,such broadcasts are not new to Phoenix area professional teams. KTNNbroadcast Phoenix
Suns games in Navajo during the 1990s.Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.

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