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The Broadcasters by Red Barber, signed

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Publisher : The Dial Press
Genre : History, Sports
Format : Hardcover
Features : First Printing
Publication Year : 1970
Country/Region of Manufacture : United States
Author : Red Barber
Signed By : Red Barber
Signed : Yes
Edition : First Edition
Narrative Type : Nonfiction
Book Title : The Broadcasters
8 3/4" x 6" : 271
Type : History
Original Language : English
Topic : Baseball, Radio, Sports, Play-by-play, Announcers
Language : English
Intended Audience : Adults
Inscribed : Yes

In March 1970 Red Barber celebrated the fortieth anniversary of his start in radio broadcasting. Of all living sports announcers, no one has a broadcasting experience quite equal the “the old Redhead’s.” First touched by the miracle of radio when, as a small boy, he heard Major Andrew White announce the Dempsey-Carpentier fight, the first sports event ever put on the air. Red Barber’s life has been a vital part of the growth and history of sports broadcasting. In this warm and glowing book, he recounts the landmarks of his profession and the highlights of his own career at the microphone. The initial impact of radio may be difficult for today’s television public to grasp, but Red’s evocation of those early days is choice and pungent. The great pioneer announcers – Graham McNamee, Ted Husing, Bill Slater, Harry Wismer, Bill Monday, and Bill Stern – are intimately recalled by Red, who knew them all and worked with most of them. His own swift rise in the competitive, at times cutthroat, world of sports announcing is traced from a small agricultural station in Florida to Cincinnati in 1931, where so much of prime baseball and sports broadcasting was centered, to Brooklyn where Red, as the voice of the Dodgers, became the best known announcer in the business, and across town to Yankee Stadium for his final, stormy years as a contracted play-by-play broadcaster. Along the way, Red recalls and evaluates dozens of his radio and TV colleagues, with scores of colorful anecdotes. And in the inimitable straight-to-the-heart-of-the-matter voice, he gives us the ethics and the personal how-to of his craft. just as there is no other Red Barber, there is no other history of sports on the air to compare with The Broadcasters .

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