Red (Walter) Barber was New York City’s first baseball radio broadcaster and the first baseball telecaster anywhere. He chronicled the rise of the Dodgers with phrases like “tearin’ up the pea patch” and “the bases are FOB” – full of Brooklyn. The Mississippi-born Barber said, “(I) didn’t broadcast with a Brooklyn accent, but I did…
Known as “The Voice of the Yankees” and later as the voice of “This Week In Baseball”, Melvin Allen Israel’s announcing career spanned seven decades. The son of Russian immigrants, he was born in 1913 near Birmingham, Alabama. Later, he attended the University of Alabama, where he earned degrees in political science and law. Allen…
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