Podcasts about Red Barber

Tim announced his first professional baseball game at the age of 19Filling out index cards for Chicago Cubs and Montreal Expos draftFirst broadcast was with a Pirates minor league and he was paid $25 Tim's eldest son, worked his way up from single A to AAA baseball announcing  and also UNLV football & basketballAnniversary of Pirates “Take Your Kid to Work Day “ memory with his sonIn radio “ Nothing happens until you say it does.” - you are the graphicsTelevision is more of an analyst positionTim & Rick Monday keep the conversation organicTV has more to setup and more people involved in putting the show togetherListening to Andy Freed & Neil Solondz with the RaysRick reflects on meeting in the past with kindred spirits of Andy & BobCreating visuals with storytellingGetting the inside track on lineups hours before the game                  Marlins manager Clay McCullough former Dodgers coach Conversations pre game outside of the booth and getting depth to share with the audience"I can't wait to get to work every day"Tim once recorded a game from the top of a bus - recorder slid down from the arc of the top of bus during the game – luckily intact and just needed a little editingWorst booth - Old Park in Vancouver Pacific Coast League in AAA – A small wooden box with a wooden door & latch and a sawed out space for a windowThrilled to be any box in any gameCalgary & Anaheim Duck - Close Call Sports with Lindsay who also plays organ for the DucksApproach on national assignments for announcing  - playing it evenly between the teams Pitch clock has reduced the amount of time to share stories on radioYadier Molina & mound visit restrictionsThe game is moving along quicker and it is a crisper gamePre-pitch clock - had to plan to have filler stories to tell for during longer breaks and mound visitsMLB extra innings Placed Runner – (not a ghost runner)Tied games in Japanese ball and train transportationBefore MLB Manfred Man there was Softball the Olympic Tiebreaker originated with the Olympics – if game was tied in the 7th they would 2016 Spring Training conversation with Rob Manfred about the need to have umpires with microphones to explain certain callsUmpires were mic'ed up in Japan long before MLB brought it into the gameHow does a younger audience enjoy the game Many ways to listen or watch a game today via tv, phone & internetAt Bat app  - BAM – Baseball Advanced Media – adds more depth to the playersTeoscar Hernandez – uses sunflower seeds in astroturf outfields to mark his place  MLB has loosened up and allowed the players to add some flash to their uniform Prepa for the show - room temperature water is essential for 2 reasonsField of Dreams broadcast booth – who is your partnerVin Scully – Wonderful memories that no currency could buy how Vin made him feelA drive in the Mojave Desert and a Voice mail from Vin Scully -  a treasure that Tim will keep foreverRed Barber & Vince Scully story – broadcasting from the roof of Fenway Park on a cold windy day without a coatRain delays are just part of the game all part of the Charm of the GameThe Oddities & details of a game are what make baseball memoriesDryout – game called off with blue skies and not a cloud in sightFavorite away field – PNC Park in PittsburghMaury Wills & Steve Garvey should be in the Hall of FameSteve Garvey - bat boy for the Dodgers during Spring Training in Vero BeachThe depth of preparing for the game that many might know

Producer/Host: R.W. Estela Hi, I'm RW Estela: Since 1991, I've been presenting A Word in Edgewise, WERU's longest-running short feature, a veritable almanac of worldly and heavenly happenings, a confluence of 21st-century life in its myriad manifestations, international and domestic, cosmopolitan and rural, often revealing, as the French say, the more things change, the more they stay the same — though not always! Sometimes in addressing issues affecting our day-to-day lives, in this age of vagary and ambiguity, when chronological time is punctuated elliptically, things can quickly turn edgy and controversial, as we search for understanding amid our dialectic. Tune in Monday mornings at 7:30 a.m. for an exciting journey through space and time with a few notable birthdays thrown in for good measure during A Word in Edgewise . . . About the host: RW Estela was raised as a first-generation American in Colorado by a German mother and a Corsican-Basque father who would become a three-war veteran for the US Army, so RW was naturally a military brat and later engaged in various Vietnam-era civil-service adventures before paying his way through college by skiing for the University of Colorado, playing Boulder coffeehouses, and teaching. He has climbed all of Colorado's Fourteeners; found work as an FAA-certificated commercial pilot, a California-licensed building contractor, a publishing editor, a practitioner of Aikido, and a college professor of English; among his many interdisciplinary pursuits are the design and building of Terrell Residence Library (recently renamed the Terrell House Permaculture Living & Learning Center at the University of Maine), writing Building It In Two Languages (a bilingual dictionary of construction terminology), aerial photo documentation of two dam removals (Great Works and Veazie) on the Penobscot River, and once a week since 1991 drafting an installment of A Word In Edgewise, his essay series addressing issues affecting our day-to-day lives — and WERU's oldest continuous short feature. When pandemics do not interfere, he does the Triple Crown of Maine open-water ocean swims (Peaks to Portland, Islesboro Crossing, and Nubble Light Challenge) and the Whitewater Downriver Point Series of the Maine Canoe and Kayak Racing Organization. RW is the father of two and the grandfather of three and lives with his partner Kathleen of 37 years and their two Maine Coons in Orono. The post A Word in Edgewise 2/17/25: From Langston Hughes to Red Barber . . . first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.

Barber hired Vin Scully We honor one of the greatest baseball sportscasters of all time – Red Barber.  We explore his life and influence.  Ed interviews and thanks Dale Mugford from Brave New Code for our new mobile web site.  Ed then interviews author, speech writer and professor, Curt Smith.  Our podcast concludes as we remember the Ol' Redhead and […]

August 26thThe Mariners fall to the Royals‚ 7-3‚ despite Ichiro Suzuki's 200th hit of the season. With the HR‚ Suzuki becomes the 1st player to reach 200 hits in each of his 1st 4 ML seasons. A trend that would continue through the 2010 season. August 26, 1995, Greg Maddux of the Atlanta Braves ties a major league record by posting his 16th consecutive win on the road. Maddux earns a 7-2 win over his former team, the Chicago Cubs. Maddux will earn Cy Young Award honors after the season.Them Bums! A trio a Brooklyn dodger feats on this day:August 26, 1950, future Hall of Famer Roy Campanella of the Brooklyn Dodgers hits three consecutive home runs to spearhead his club to a 7-5 victory over the Cincinnati Reds. The hard-hitting catcher connects each time against Reds starter Ken Raffensberger.August 26, 1947, Dan Bankhead becomes the first black pitcher in major league history. The former Negro leagues star makes his first appearance with the Brooklyn Dodgers, who previously debuted Jackie Robinson on April 15. Bankhead becomes the first National League pitcher to homer in his first at-bat, but gives up eight runs and 10 hits in 3 1/3 innings.August 26, 1939, the first televised broadcast of a major league game takes place at Ebbets Field, where the Brooklyn Dodgers host the Cincinnati Reds in a twinbill. Legendary announcer Red Barber broadcasts the game over W2XBS. The Dodgers take the first game 6-2, Hugh Casey got the victory and Dolph Camilli drives in 3 and hits first homerun. The Reds take the second 5-2.

August 26thThe Mariners fall to the Royals‚ 7-3‚ despite Ichiro Suzuki's 200th hit of the season. With the HR‚ Suzuki becomes the 1st player to reach 200 hits in each of his 1st 4 ML seasons. A trend that would continue through the 2010 season. August 26, 1995, Greg Maddux of the Atlanta Braves ties a major league record by posting his 16th consecutive win on the road. Maddux earns a 7-2 win over his former team, the Chicago Cubs. Maddux will earn Cy Young Award honors after the season.Them Bums! A trio a Brooklyn dodger feats on this day:August 26, 1950, future Hall of Famer Roy Campanella of the Brooklyn Dodgers hits three consecutive home runs to spearhead his club to a 7-5 victory over the Cincinnati Reds. The hard-hitting catcher connects each time against Reds starter Ken Raffensberger.August 26, 1947, Dan Bankhead becomes the first black pitcher in major league history. The former Negro leagues star makes his first appearance with the Brooklyn Dodgers, who previously debuted Jackie Robinson on April 15. Bankhead becomes the first National League pitcher to homer in his first at-bat, but gives up eight runs and 10 hits in 3 1/3 innings.August 26, 1939, the first televised broadcast of a major league game takes place at Ebbets Field, where the Brooklyn Dodgers host the Cincinnati Reds in a twinbill. Legendary announcer Red Barber broadcasts the game over W2XBS. The Dodgers take the first game 6-2, Hugh Casey got the victory and Dolph Camilli drives in 3 and hits first homerun. The Reds take the second 5-2.

SERIES 3 EPISODE 10: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: First he held a news conference where the reporters didn't have microphones. Then he held a news conference where the reporters basically didn't get to ask questions. What's next? A Trump News Conference without Trump? Sounds like a good idea. Incredibly, CNN ran the whole nonsensical non-news conference rant live. As somebody who was hired by CNN as its first year ended in 1981 I have a secret for them – the acronym stands for “Cable NEWS Network.” You're no longer news. Cut to a test pattern, fire everybody, and start from scratch. Which also applies to Trump's running mate. I'm beginning to think J.D. Vance is actually a Democratic plant. New Kensington, Pennsylvania. At VFW Post 92. That's Veterans of Foreign Wars, the post number is 92, and there is still the Sarah Palin rule. Vance called it "VFA," forgot the number, had to fish into his pocket for a card that had the number written on it, and forgot the Palin rule (if you're an idiot running for Vice President, and you have to remember something, just write it on your hand). There are more polls and Kamalapalooza continues. She's pulled off a nine-point swing in Pennsylvania and a ten-point swing nationally. So naturally Politico led with 28 paragraphs on Vivek Ramaswamy insisting Trump was listening to his advice to focus on the issues and not attack her. This is while the Republican campaign is imploding so quickly that now Frank Luntz is wondering if Trump is trying to lose. And as the Trump campaign continues to try to insist it has nothing to do with Project 2025, Media Matters uncovers the implausible. There's a Project 2025 training video starring Karoline Leavitt, who is now Trump's Campaign spokesperson. As the video ends she tells Project 2025 trainees that if they need any help to just contact her. B-Block (23:57) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: The Republican House Candidate accused, as a cop, of handcuffing an infant. RFK Junior hires somebody to program political ads to you based on data on your phone. And baseball's new low: the Mets' ceremonial first pitch was thrown out by the Hawk Tuah woman. I presume she threw a spitball. C-Block (33:10) FRIDAYS WITH THURBER: It's got everything: Suspense, Baseball, Red Barber, a story that was turned into a movie with Peter Sellers. It's "The Catbird Set."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today's discussion involves The Open Championship, the Atlanta Braves hospital ward, next week's big Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame celebration and the Paris Olympics.

Joined today by reporter and author of the new book "The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City", Kevin Baker. Kevin shares about writing for the local newspaper at age 13, moving to NYC in the 70's and what the Big Apple was like back then. We chat about his new book, spanning from the Civil War - World War 2. The research that went into it, how he juggled writing about the city, the origins of baseball, and authors that influenced this book. We go over the first baseball superstar James Creighton, who played in the 1850's, the crazy life of John McGraw, and the career and passing of Christy Mathewson. Kevin imparts how NYC molded the game of baseball, the characters who influenced the game, and how the game was almost ruined by Hal Chase and the Black Sox scandal. We chat about Babe Ruth, how he saved baseball, how he's the greatest ever, and some stories about the Big Fella'. We go over racism in and out of the game in NYC, why the Dodgers left Brooklyn and the Giants left Harlem. Red Barber on the radio, Martin Dihigo being the Cuban Babe Ruth, Fred Merkle and more. All this plus talk about cool memorabilia, drunk texting Ken Burns, and the game Kevin wishes he could have witnessed live. All this and more with a true historian of New York City. Follow Kevin here: https://kevinbaker.info/

SERIES 2 EPISODE 198: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: The New York Times' sourced story - that a year ago first a senior federal judge in Florida phoned Judge Aileen Cannon and urged her to hand off the Trump Espionage/Stolen Classified Documents case to some other judge, and when Cannon ignored the idea, the CHIEF federal judge in Florida phoned Cannon and warned her that the optics of ruling on the president who appointed her with disastrous - is not just a great bit of reporting. It's a clear shot across the bow of Cannon. It's an indicator that this is her last chance to voluntarily recuse from a case she has so mishandled that even when both Trump and Jack Smith said they were ready to start the trial, SHE refused. I think it's a legitimate inference that if she again ignores it, a real move will be made against her (maybe even against her fitness to continue as a judge). The chief judge who issued the warning was appointed by Governor Bush and then President Bush and to me it's clear this was a planned leak. Let's hope it works. MEANWHILE IT'S TIME FOR RFK JUNIOR TO DROP OUT. The nephew of a martyred President and son of a man who easily could've won the office has now threatened to jail Dana Bash and Jake Tapper of CNN - and the whole network management and production staff - because the network has excluded him from the debate next week. Kennedy's farcical, dangerous, insane Trump stalking horse campaign has to end. He isn't a victim and he isn't being persecuted. He's nuts. AND DONALD SUTHERLAND HAS DIED. This spectacularly talented man was, I am proud to say, my friend. He appointed himself my "acting father" after my Dad died. He was supportive, insightful, hilarious, and I think I can tell you something you may not know about him: he was as good a writer as I've ever read. I will read you one of the dozens of emails he sent me. I will restrain myself and chose one about baseball, not one about...Jane Fonda. B-Block (27:55) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: What if a Tucker Carlson fell over in Australia and nobody was there to hear it? His speaking tour? Plenty of good seats available. Jeff Bezos still won't do the obvious: Will Lewis has to be fired before he crashes The Washington Post. And Dylan Byers trots out words like "hero" and "great" for my late friend Howard Fineman. 14 months ago he gratuitously and painfully insulted him in a story that gad nothing to do with Howard just because he felt like taking a shot at somebody. Byers, a management-jock-sniffing jackass, might meet the same fate 30 years from now - except nobody will remember his work. C-Block (40:02) FRIDAYS WITH THURBER: One of the existential premises of his work was: everything in the world could be reduced to a husband and wife arguing over the dumbest of things. This week he has her insisting that he is murdering her wrong in "Mr. Preble Gets Rid Of His Wife."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bill James called him “the slowest man who played baseball,” yet his ten years with a batting average over .300 would make him attractive to any team. In his seventeen years, he was the first catcher to earn two NL Batting Awards. He finished with a career .306, but it was one lapse of concentration in Game 4 of the 1939 World Series he would be remembered for. Taking a hard-hit ball without a protective cup in the tenth inning left him dazed while the World Series winning run stole home. Rather than the fateful Game 4, let's step back a few days and remind ourselves that a World Series is more than a single play. Lombardi is still catching, Bucky Walters is his starting pitcher, and the game is in the oppressive and hostile Yankee Stadium. The classic team of Red Barber and Bob Elson are behind the microphone. You can find the boxscore here: https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYA/NYA193910050.shtml This game was played on October 5, 1939. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/classicbaseballradio/message

Lance talks Bengals draft prospects with James Rapien, the hiring of Mark Pope with Matt Jones of Kentucky Sports Radio and Lance takes your calls talking Reds. Lance also plays old audio from Bob Trumpy's show talking with Peewee Reese and Red Barber.

Lance talks Bengals draft prospects with James Rapien, the hiring of Mark Pope with Matt Jones of Kentucky Sports Radio and Lance takes your calls talking Reds. Lance also plays old audio from Bob Trumpy's show talking with Peewee Reese and Red Barber.

SEASON 2 EPISODE 145: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: His Republican minions in the House thought releasing the previously unreported January 6 Committee transcript of an interview with a White House valet would help the desperate need to "prove" Trump tried to stop January 6th. Instead it shows that he was told that Ashli Babbitt had been shot in the chest and he did and said nothing and now he uses her at his fascist rallies and his inhumanity and selfishness is more apparent than ever. The testimony also shows Trump thought to call General Mark Milley and then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi about the National Guard (the GOP will play that part up) and then... didn't (the GOP will ignore that part). And it details how he threatened Mike Pence that morning and even as the coup failed his only concern was himself, and how Pence "let me down." It is an amazing self-own by Trump's congresswhores. ALSO the NY Attorney General has begun the paperwork to seize at least one Trump property, the NYC DA says that 100,000 page document dump is virtually irrelevant to the case and trial should begin April 15. And Merrick Garland makes a jackass out of himself yet again. (16:46) THE SHOHEI ME THE MONEY SCANDAL: Yesterday, I said they had to answer – as quickly as possible – the old Watergate cliché: What did Shohei Ohtani Know And When Did He Know It? Since then, the actions of Ohtani and his representatives and the Dodgers and Baseball (keeping Ohtani away from the press; insisting there's no MLB investigation) have QUINTUPLED the number of questions that must be satisfied as quickly and thoroughly as possible: WHY have you issued two or maybe three different official versions of this story; HOW could Ohtani have acknowledged he sent the bookie four and a half million dollars then insist the money had been stolen from him AND then insist he knew nothing about any of this; HOW long did the TEAM know about this disaster; IS the interpreter just trying to take the fall for Ohtani; WHY did a Dodgers source remind ESPN that whatever happened, it happened when Ohtani was playing for the Angels (the answer is: the Dodgers are covering their asses if Ohtani goes down); and maybe most saliently: the fired translator Mizuhara told ESPN his annual salary was between 300-thousand and 500-thousand dollars. What kind of self-respecting bookie would let a guy with THAT level of income, run up four and a half million dollars in unpaid gambling losses? B-Block (28:19) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: The Tampa Bay Rays spoil it. The pitcher for whom they just traded will NOT become Joe Rock of The Rockies. A Republican congressman retweets the GOP's favorite news source: Russian State TV. And Liz Harrington thinks Peter Navarro can appeal the Supreme Court's verdict to...Jesus. (Jesus!) C-Block (36:00) FRIDAYS WITH THURBER: It's the start of another baseball season (and maybe another baseball scandal of biblical proportions!) so let's celebrate with Thurber's epic mixture of Brooklyn Dodgers Play-by-Play and the jujitsu of the little man: The Catbird Seat.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Harper's Contributing Editor and novelist/historian extraordinaire Kevin Baker ("The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City") brings his blended affection for (and evocative portrayals of) both "The Big Apple" and the "National Pastime" - to make a compelling case for New York City as the rightful center of the baseball universe. From Alan Moores' review in Booklist:   "Baseball fans beyond Gotham's gravitational pull might bristle at the notion that New York was the epicenter of the creation and growth of the game. But Baker's raucous, revelatory, lovingly detailed account will win them over from the first pitch. Baker lays out the early history of the game in the city, then seamlessly weaves together the vibrant origin stories of the New York Yankees, New York Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers, and the city's Cuban and African American teams, right up to the eve of Jackie Robinson's 1945 signing with the Dodgers.   "He vividly recreates the recklessly ambitious, breathtakingly corrupt, alcohol-fueled world of Tammany Hall politics—which were followed by the reforms of Fiorello La Guardia—that steered, and were sometimes even steered by, the game. Dozens of near-mythic and also too-human figures parade through the pages, from John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, Fred Merkle, Carl Hubbell, Mel Ott, Leo Durocher, Casey Stengel, Red Barber, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, and Branch Rickey, to an array of crime bosses, team owners, and mayors.    "Then there was Babe Ruth, whose gaudy statistics, irrepressible personality, and seismic impact on the game, the city, and the entire nation outshone even his legend, as Baker convincingly argues here. A spellbinding history of a game and the city where it found itself."   SUPPORT THE SHOW: Buy Us a Coffee: https://ko-fi.com/goodseatsstillavailable   SPONSOR THANKS: Newspapers.com (promo code: GSA20):  https://newspapers.com   BUY/READ EARLY & OFTEN: The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City (2024): https://amzn.to/3TvWgsf   FIND & FOLLOW: Website: https://goodseatsstillavailable.com/ X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/GoodSeatsStill Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goodseatsstillavailable/ Threads: https://www.threads.net/@goodseatsstillavailable Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GoodSeatsStillAvailable/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@goodseatsstillavailable

Join Scott Jagow for "Three Good Things" as he pays tribute to the late Bob Edwards, the iconic voice behind NPR's Morning Edition. Scott reflects on Bob's illustrious career, from interviewing newsmakers to sharing moments with legendary figures like Red Barber. The segment also celebrates the enduring radio legacy of Joy (Grdnic) Christensen, known as Joy in the Morning on KSHE in the 1970s.

On the version of Hot off the Wire posted Feb. 13 at 7:15 a.m. CT: HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Parts of the Northeast are preparing for a coastal storm that's expected to dump a foot or more of snow and pack 60 mph winds in some areas. Hazardous driving conditions, school closings and flight cancellations are predicted for when the storm hits Tuesday, along with possible power outages. The nation’s largest school system in New York City said it was switching classes to remote learning and closing its buildings for the day. Boston schools will be closed. Non-essential Massachusetts state employees were told not to go to their workplaces. Some of the highest snowfall totals, 12 to 15 inches, were forecast for the northern New York City suburbs and southwestern Connecticut. NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say one person was killed and five others wounded following a dispute between two groups of teenagers at a New York City subway station Monday at the start of the evening rush hour. The gunfire broke out on an elevated train platform in the Bronx at around 4:30 p.m. Monday, a time when stations throughout the city are filled with kids coming home from school and many workers are beginning their evening commute. Officials say a 34-year-old man was killed. The wounded included a 14-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy, and three adults, ages 28, 29 and 71. Authorities said some of the victims were believed involved in the dispute and others were waiting for the train. ATLANTA (AP) — Family and friends are gathering in Georgia this week as funerals begin for three Army Reserve soldiers killed in a recent drone attack in Jordan. A funeral is scheduled Tuesday for 46-year-old Staff Sgt. William Jerome Rivers at a church in Carrollton, west of Atlanta. Services for Sgt. Breonna Moffett of Savannah and Sgt. Kennedy Sanders of Waycross, Georgia, are planned for Saturday. The three citizen-soldiers received posthumous promotions after they were were killed in a Jan. 28 drone attack on a U.S. base near Jordon's border with Syria. They were assigned to the Army Reserve's 926th Engineer Battalion based at Fort Moore, Georgia. NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian police have fired tear gas and detained some farmers who tried to break barricades blocking their way to New Delhi in a protest march. The farmers want assured crop prices, in a repeat of 2021 protests when they camped on New Delhi's outskirts for more than a year. The protests forced the government to repeal agriculture laws that farmers said would harm their incomes. The government said at that time that it would set up a panel of farmers and government officials to find ways to ensure support prices for all farm produce. Multiple meetings since then have made no progress. The march comes months before a national election in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to win a third term. NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is calling for a leadership change at the Republican National Committee in an attempt to install a new slate of loyalists — including his daughter-in-law — at the top of the GOP’s political machine even before he formally secures the party’s next presidential nomination. Trump outlined his plans on social media Monday night. They carry no official weight until he is the party’s presumed presidential nominee. Current RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel says she has no plans to leave the committee until at least after South Carolina’s Feb. 24 primary election. Still, Trump is calling for McDaniel to be replaced by Michael Whatley, the North Carolina GOP chairman. The new co-chair, Trump said, should be his daughter-in-law Lara Trump. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has launched a task force aimed at addressing the "systemic” problem of mishandling classified information during presidential transitions. Monday's action comes days after a Justice Department special counsel’s sharply critical report said he had done just that. The Presidential Records Transition Task Force will study past transitions to determine best practices for safeguarding classified information from an outgoing administration. It will also assess the need for changes to existing policies to prevent the removal of sensitive information that by law should be kept with the National Archives and Records Administration. Special counsel Robert Hur's report listed dozens of sensitive documents found at Biden’s home in Delaware, and at his former Washington office. WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Donald Trump says he once warned that he would allow Russia to do whatever it wants to NATO member nations that are “delinquent” in devoting 2% of their gross domestic product to defense. Trump’s comment on Saturday represented the latest instance in which the former president and Republican front-runner seemed to side with an authoritarian state over America’s democratic allies. NATO members don’t pay to belong and don’t owe the organization anything other than contributions to a largely administrative fund. Trump's frequent complaint has been how much NATO countries put into their own military budgets. The 2% is a voluntary benchmark and no debt or “delinquency” is involved. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is defending its new TikTok account as a vital way to boost its appeal with young voters. It's doing so even as the Biden administration continues to raise security concerns about whether the popular social media app might be sharing user data with China’s communist government. The campaign says the president’s debut on TikTok on Sunday night has drawn more than 5 million views and counting. White House national security spokesman John Kirby says there are still national security concerns about the use of TikTok on government devices. Super Bowl ratings skyrocket, the Dallas Cowboys name their defensive coordinator, UCLA tabs its next head coach, the Rockets hang on to beat the Knicks, Jen Pawol is about to make baseball history. Correspondent Chuck Freimund reports. RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A leading Democratic Virginia legislator says proposed legislation to help pave the way for the NBA’s Washington Wizards and NHL’s Washington Capitals to relocate to northern Virginia is dead. Sen. L. Louise Lucas holds great sway in the General Assembly as chair of the Senate Finance & Appropriations Committee. She told reporters Monday morning that Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin had made a series of mistakes in trying to advance the deal through a General Assembly now in full Democratic control after November’s elections. She outlined concerns about the financing structure and said Youngkin had not been negotiating in good faith. A bill is still alive in the House of Delegates but Lucas' remarks are a major setback for the deal. NEW YORK (AP) — Bob Edwards, the news anchor many Americans woke up to as founding host of National Public Radio's “Morning Edition” for nearly a quarter-century, has died. NPR said he died Saturday at age 76, but it had no other details. Edwards joined NPR in 1974, and was the founding voice on “Morning Edition” in 1979. His authoritative baritone made many listeners feel he was older than he was. For 12 years, his interviews with sportscasting legend Red Barber were a regular feature, and they provided the foundation for Edwards' book “Friday with Red: A Radio Friendship.” He was pulled from “Morning Edition” in 2004 just before celebrating a quarter-century on the show, a move that led some listeners to protest. Robert Kennedy Jr.’s presidential ambitions resulted in public family drama after a political action committee aired a Super Bowl ad invoking the Democratic family’s legacy to implicitly compare the independent candidate to his assassinated uncle, President John F. Kennedy. The 30-second spot was financed by the American Values 2024 Super PAC that is backing Kennedy. The ad featured a shortened version of a campaign song that the 35th president used in his 1960 campaign. The spot also mimicked cartoon and newsreel effects using black-and-white pictures of Robert Kennedy Jr. similar to his uncle. One of Robert Kennedy's cousins blasted him for the spot. In a statement on social media, Kennedy apologized to any of his family members who were upset by the ad. NEW YORK (AP) — Plenty of retailers and suppliers are reducing the variety of their offerings to focus instead on what they think will sell best. Stew Leonard’s, a supermarket chain, now has 24 cereal flavors or types, down from 49 in 2019. Coca-Cola has discontinued half its drink brands to 200. Many businesses have decided less is better, justifying their limited selection by asserting shoppers don’t want so much choice. It’s also more profitable for companies because they’re not carrying over as many leftovers that need to be discounted. HOUSTON (AP) — Police say a woman in a trenchcoat opened fire with a long gun inside celebrity pastor Joel Osteen’s Texas megachurch before being gunned down by two off-duty officers who confronted her. The afternoon shooting at the Houston megachurch sent worshippers scrambling out of the building between busy Sunday services. Authorities say the woman was dead and a 5-year-old boy with her was critically wounded by gunfire. They also say a 57-year-old man was wounded. Houston Police Chief Troy Finner praised the officers for their quick actions. Osteen says the shooting could have been much worse if it had happened during the larger 11 a.m. service. WOODBURY, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut pastor has been arrested on allegations that he sold crystal meth out of his church’s rectory. Police say the reverend of a United Methodist Church in Woodbury was taken into custody Friday after authorities received a tip about the drugs. The pastor was arrested on drug and motor vehicle charges after police say a cooperating witness tipped them off and set up a purported drug deal with the reverend. The pastor was released on $10,000 bail and was ordered to appear in Waterbury Superior Court on Feb. 23. Phone and email messages were left Monday for the pastor and the church. —The Associated Press About this program Host Terry Lipshetz is managing editor of the national newsroom for Lee Enterprises. Besides producing the daily Hot off the Wire news podcast, Terry conducts periodic interviews for this Behind the Headlines program, co-hosts the Streamed & Screened movies and television program and is the former producer of Across the Sky, a podcast dedicated to weather and climate. Lee Enterprises produces many national, regional and sports podcasts. Learn more here.

Day 1 of Dodgers Arizona Spring TrainingPlayers have reported earlyDodgerFest – Shohei Ohtani – World Media will surround himOhtani much like Taylor Swift or BeatlesDid Blue Jays benefit from early speculation on Ohtani flying to TorontoShohei – once in a lifetime player, understands the difference between Angels & Dodgers fandomYamamoto –  workload change from pitching once a week in Japan to once every 5 days in the MLB.Yamamoto's No Hitter in JapanTyler Glasnow – Tim and Tyler wee on a Pittsburg winter caravan Tyler a Dodgers hometown boy Pitching Challenges – Clayton Kershaw, Bobby Miller, Emmet Sheehan, Michael Grove, Gavin Stone & Christian Zazueta Dodgers cooled off when Diamondbacks warmed upWalker Buehler - Dodgers will they slow play himPost Season – The impact of a bye and simulated gamesClayton Kershaw – what will his future hold as Kershaw signs with the DodgersDustin May back after 2nd surgeryBlake Treinen – First healthy off season    Tony Goslin will be out this year due to Tommy JohnsDodger Announcer legacyRed Barber – Oh Doctor!Vin Scully – “2 outs, 2 on and it's a 2, 2 count – Deuces wild” Red Barber hired a 22-year old Vin Scully Vins' first game - Maryland and BU football game on a Freezing cold game day. Vin called this game from the roof of Fenway ParkTim's announcing outside of baseball including hockey, 4 Olympics, ski-jumping, women's aerials, trackMost difficult 90 minutes of Tim's career - 2004 Athens Greece – with limited knowledge, Tim was given 10 minutes notice that he would be calling his first soccer game. Reynaldo storyTim alternates between Radio and TV Analyst gigs & works with Orel Hershiser & Rick MondayMonday is one of the most prepared analyst in the game Fernando Valenzuela – prankster and funny guy in the broadcasting inner circle including Hershiser, Monday, José Mota, Pepe Yñiguez Tim preparing for the 2024 Dodger's Spring Training season?JIC (Just In Case) players from Dodger's minor Leagues in Spring TrainingIn Spring Training Dodger's play a different team every day. It takes more work to prepare for each team & gameCovid Curveball – still available on Amazon 2024 Dodgers division – Diamondbacks, Giants, Padres & Rockies where will they all fit in.Special Thanks to Tim Neverett, Dodgers Announcer,  Author of "Covid Curveball" Tim can be found @TimNeverett on Twitter and you can hear him call play by play on  Los Angeles Dodgers Play-By-Play Radio & TV Covid Curveball" can be found on Amazon at " https://www.amazon.com/COVID-Curveball-Angeles-Dodgers-Championship/dp/1637581432  BaseballBiz On Deck on iheartradio, Stitcher, Apple & Google podcasts  You can reach Mark @TheBaseballBiz on Twitter Special thanks to XTaKeRuX for the music "Rocking Forward"

For the 1961 season, the Washington Senators moved out of the capital to play ball in Minnesota as the Twins. Marque names such as Harmon Killebrew, Bob Allison, and Jim Perry helped the team make its mark in its new home. Four years later, the Twins would win the AL pennant and bring it to Minnesota for the first time. As for Washington, the city would not be left without a baseball team. Immediately replacing the Washington Senators in 1961 were… the Washington Senators. The team with an old name was one of two AL expansion teams, and success did not come easy. The team's first pennant was in 2010, but by then, they had moved to Arlington as the Texas Rangers. That first year saw them finish behind everyone else in the AL, posting a 61-100 record. 1961 was the year of a dominant Yankees team, finishing 47 and a half games ahead of the Senators. But what of their head-to-head? We join the Senators at Yankee Stadium on 2nd July; the two teams' record is 3-3, and we have Bob Delaney hosting, with Phil Rizzuto and Red Barber on the play-by-play. You can find the boxscore here. https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYA/NYA196107020.shtml This game was played on 2 July, 1961. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/classicbaseballradio/message

Clay is joined by Dr. Kurt Kemper of Dakota State University in Madison, South Dakota, and our west coast Enlightenment correspondent David Nicandri. Both are deeply interested in American sports, both for the sport per se, but also for the window they provide on the larger dynamics of American life. This week's topics: outsized college coach salaries; the madcap world of Bill Walton; the problematic temperament of Draymond Green; and the death of intercollegiality in American college sports. Dr. Kemper is the author of College Football and American Culture in the Cold War Era. David Nicandri has written highly regarded books on Lewis and Clark and Captain James Cook.

A gentleman in demeanour but a superman when slugging. That was Harmon Killebrew, Idaho's greatest home-run hitter and a legend at the plate. He was a 13-times All-Star, a 6-time AL home-run leader, a 3x AL RBI leader, and the 1969 MVP. When he retired, he was fifth in the all-time Home Run record, and his 573 bombs are still enough to hold twelfth place today. He could easily reach the edge of the yard, notably being the first of only four players to ever bat over the left field roof of Tiger Stadium in Detroit. The batting earned him the nickname of "killer" no doubt helped by his name, yet he was seen as one of the politest players in the game. And he's definitely not the slugger in the MLB logo. We join Killebrew and the Twins as they welcome the Yankees to the Metropolitan Stadium. The twins have a commanding 53-29 record—they are on their way to a 102-win season and the first AL pennant for the Twins in Minnesota. Killebrew is in his beloved role as the cleanup hitter and is facing the Yankees Al Downing. Jerry Coleman and Red Barber share the microphone for the Yankees Radio Network. You can find the boxscore here. https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/MIN/MIN196507110.shtml This game was played on 11 July, 1965. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/classicbaseballradio/message

Barber hired Vin Scully We honor one of the greatest baseball sportscasters of all time – Red Barber.  We explore his life and influence.  Ed interviews and thanks Dale Mugford from Brave New Code for our new mobile web site.  Ed then interviews author, speech writer and professor, Curt Smith.  Our podcast concludes as we remember the Ol' Redhead and […]

SEASON 2 EPISODE 50: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump is for all intents and purposes a spy, who in April 2021 gave away nuclear submarine secrets to an Australian manufacturer of boxes, 'potentially endanger(ing) the U.S. fleet." The businessman promptly told at least 45 other people, including 11 of his own employees, 10 Australian officials, and THREE FORMER Australian Prime Ministers. We must do to Trump what we would do to any other trafficker in top secret information: arrest, detention without bail, prosecution for espionage. We know the name of the man Trump delivered defense information to, we know his nationality, we know when and where Trump delivered it to him, we know what the information delivered WAS, we know that Jack Smith's investigators know about it and interviewed him at least twice, and we know WHO the man in turned SHARED the top secret information WITH, totaling at LEAST 45 other people including three of his home country's prime ministers. TRUMP GAVE AWAY OUR NUCLEAR SUBMARINE SECRETS TO A GUY WHO MAKES CORRUGATED BOXES. It's ESPIONAGE. Donald Trump committed ESPIONAGE. He is not MERELY trying to burn down representative government in this country AGAIN but in his spare time over the last three years he has been committing ESPIONAGE and he is for all intents and purposes a foreign agent of at LEAST one other country, Australia, and when we FIND agents of other countries who trade in information about how many nuclear warheads can fit in one of our submarines or how close they can get to the Russians without the Russians finding out they are there. And the government, no matter the fallout, needs to arrest Donald Trump today, for espionage, for spying on behalf of a foreign nation, and keep him detained without bail. B-Block (22:30) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: Get your popcorn. The Republicans are Cawthorning Matt Gaetz. Politico underscores what's wrong with American media. The GOP finally can claim it got a Biden out of the White House: Commander the dog. (27:03) IN SPORTS: Farewell to Dick Butkus. I knew him; he was smart, ethical, funny. As predicted here, the Mets' GM exits. And as predicted nowhere: The New York Post comes out in defense of Trevor Bauer. (31:54) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Fox's pro-Nikki Haley guest turns out to be her state co-chair. Target's claim to be closing stores because of shoplifting turns out to be fraudulent. And Sage Steele and Bill Maher participate in the worst interview I've ever seen. C-Block (40:35) FRIDAYS WITH THURBER: His epic of baseball and not-really-attempted murder: "The Catbird Seat."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

August 26thThe Mariners fall to the Royals‚ 7-3‚ despite Ichiro Suzuki's 200th hit of the season. With the HR‚ Suzuki becomes the 1st player to reach 200 hits in each of his 1st 4 ML seasons. A trend that would continue through the 2010 season. August 26, 1995, Greg Maddux of the Atlanta Braves ties a major league record by posting his 16th consecutive win on the road. Maddux earns a 7-2 win over his former team, the Chicago Cubs. Maddux will earn Cy Young Award honors after the season.Them Bums! A trio a Brooklyn dodger feats on this day:August 26, 1950, future Hall of Famer Roy Campanella of the Brooklyn Dodgers hits three consecutive home runs to spearhead his club to a 7-5 victory over the Cincinnati Reds. The hard-hitting catcher connects each time against Reds starter Ken Raffensberger.August 26, 1947, Dan Bankhead becomes the first black pitcher in major league history. The former Negro leagues star makes his first appearance with the Brooklyn Dodgers, who previously debuted Jackie Robinson on April 15. Bankhead becomes the first National League pitcher to homer in his first at-bat, but gives up eight runs and 10 hits in 3 1/3 innings.August 26, 1939, the first televised broadcast of a major league game takes place at Ebbets Field, where the Brooklyn Dodgers host the Cincinnati Reds in a twinbill. Legendary announcer Red Barber broadcasts the game over W2XBS. The Dodgers take the first game 6-2, Hugh Casey got the victory and Dolph Camilli drives in 3 and hits first homerun. The Reds take the second 5-2.

A radio host's unique friendship with a fellow broadcast legend For a dozen years the pioneering radio sports broadcaster Red Barber called in every Friday to NPR's Morning Edition show, for an unscripted 4 minute talk with host Bob Edwards. After Barber's death in 1992 Edwards wrote a memoir of those memorable conversations, a book he called Fridays With Red. In this 1993 interview Edwards recaptures the magic of their radio friendship. Get Fridays with Red by Bob Edwards You may also enjoy my interviews with Garrison Keillor and Wolfman Jack For more vintage interviews with celebrities, leaders, and influencers, subscribe to Now I've Heard Everything on Spotify, Apple Podcasts. or wherever you listen to podcasts. Photo by Jared and Corin #nationalradioday #radio #npr #redbarber

Original Air Date: October 07, 1938Host: Andrew RhynesShow: The Lone RangerPhone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739) Stars:• Earle Graser (Lone Ranger)• John Todd (Tonto) Writer:• Fran Striker Producer:• George W. Trendle Music:• Ben Bonnell Exit music from: Roundup on the Prairie by Aaron Kenny https://bit.ly/3kTj0kK

Original Air Date: October 07, 1938Host: Andrew RhynesShow: The Lone RangerPhone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739) Stars:• Earle Graser (Lone Ranger)• John Todd (Tonto) Writer:• Fran Striker Producer:• George W. Trendle Music:• Ben Bonnell Exit music from: Roundup on the Prairie by Aaron Kenny https://bit.ly/3kTj0kK

When someone picks up awards for Rookie fo the Year, Most Valuable Player, and the Cy Young Award during their career, you know they are something special. And yes, pitcher Don Newcombe was something special. For today's classic game, let's go back to one of the many firsts that Newcombe had in his career, namely becoming the first black pitcher to start a game in the World Series. It's October 5th, and Newcombe is going to throw one of the memorable pitcher duels in the Fall Classic, as he faces the Yankees' Allie Reynolds. Red Barber and Mel Allen take us through nine innings towards history. You can find the boxscore here, https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYA/NYA194910050.shtml This game was played on October 5th, 1949. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/classicbaseballradio/message

In Breaking Walls episode 138 in honor of opening day, we'll share stories, and sounds from Baseball history and the radio. —————————— Highlights: • Dots and Dashes • The Babe • Mel Allen • Dizzy • The War • Jackie • The Death of Babe Ruth • Baseball Radio Drama • The Shot Heard Round The World • Westward Ho! • The TV Era and the Death of Jackie Robinson • Looking Ahead To May with Frank, Dean, Jerry, and Marilyn —————————— The WallBreakers: http://thewallbreakers.com Subscribe to Breaking Walls everywhere you get your podcasts. To support the show: http://patreon.com/TheWallBreakers —————————— The reading material for today's episode was: • On The Air — By John Dunning • The Voice: Mel Allen's Untold Story — By Curt Smith • Those Great Old-Time Radio Years — By Aubrey J. Sher As well as countless other references and websites for baseball stats and history. —————————— On the interview front: • Mel Allen and Vincent Price spoke to Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for WTIC's The Golden Age of Radio. Hear these full interviews at GoldenAge-WTIC.org • Vincent Price also spoke to Chuck Schaden. Hear this interview at SpeakingofRadio.com • Red Barber and Ben Gross spoke to Westinghouse for their anniversary special in 1970 • Red Barber spoke for Please Stand By in 1986 • Red Barber and Phil Rizzuto spoke to CBS for their Fiftieth Anniversary Special in 1977 • Marilyn Monroe spoke to Dave Garroway for NBC's Monitor in 1955. —————————— Selected music featured in today's episode was: • Take Me Out To the Ball Game — By Dorris Day and Frank Sinatra • Love Echoes in the Pine Hills — By George Winston • Someone To Watch Over Me — By Rosemary Squires & The Ken Thorne Orchestra • Swing Into Spring — By Benny Goodman • I'm a Fool To Want You — By Billie Holiday • Battle Cry of Freedom and Steal Away — By Jacqueline Schwab • The Colorado Trail, Opus 28 Fantaisie for Harp — By Elizabeth Hainen • There Used to Be A Ballpark — By Frank Sinatra • The First Baseball Game — By Nat King Cole • Danse Macabre — By Camille Saint-Saens —————————— A special thank you to Ted Davenport, Jerry Haendiges, and Gordon Skene. For Ted go to RadioMemories.com, for Jerry, visit OTRSite.com, and for Gordon, please go to PastDaily.com. —————————— Thank you to: Tony Adams Steven Allmon Orson Orsen Chandler Phil Erickson Jessica Hanna Perri Harper Briana Isaac Thomas M. Joyce Ryan Kramer Earl Millard Gary Mollica Barry Nadler Christian Neuhaus Aimee Pavy Ray Shaw Filipe A Silva John Williams —————————— WallBreakers Links: Patreon - patreon.com/thewallbreakers Social Media - @TheWallBreakers

In 1946, Babe Ruth, always a heavy smoker, began to experience severe pain over his left eye and difficulty swallowing. Tests were bleak. Ruth had an inoperable malignant tumor at the base of his skull. He was one of the first cancer patients to receive both drugs and radiation treatment simultaneously. He lost eighty pounds and was discharged from the hospital in February of 1947. Baseball commissioner Happy Chandler proclaimed April 27th, 1947 Babe Ruth Day around the major leagues. At Yankee Stadium a number of teammates and others spoke in honor of Ruth, who briefly addressed the crowd of almost sixty-thousand. By then, his voice was barely more than a soft whisper. Around this time, developments in chemotherapy offered some hope. Doctors treated Ruth with a folic acid derivative. He showed dramatic improvement. During the summer of 1947 he was able to travel around the country doing promotional work for the Ford Motor Company on American Legion Baseball. On August 12th he appeared on Red Barber's radio show. The improvement was temporary. By late 1947 he was unable to help write his autobiography. In and out of the hospital in Manhattan, Ruth traveled to and from Florida that winter. The next June 5th, 1948, a "gaunt and hollowed out" Babe visited Yale University to donate a manuscript of his autobiography to its library. There he met Yale's baseball captain, future president George H. W. Bush. Eight days later he visited Yankee Stadium for the final time. Ruth used a bat as a cane. Nat Fein's photo of Ruth taken from behind, standing near home plate won the Pulitzer Prize and is one of the most famous Baseball photos in history, Ruth made one final trip on behalf of American Legion Baseball, then entered Memorial Hospital. George Herman “Babe” Ruth died on August 16th, 1948, at 8:01 p.m. He was just fifty-three. His open casket was placed on display in the rotunda of Yankee Stadium. In two days more than seventy-seven thousand people paid tribute. His Requiem Mass was held at St. Patrick's Cathedral; a crowd estimated at seventy-five thousand waited outside. Babe Ruth is still widely considered the greatest baseball player of all-time.

Tuesday, April 15th, 1947. 12:30PM. It's damp and overcast. We're at Ebbets field in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York. The visiting Boston Braves are playing the Brooklyn Dodgers on opening day. We can smell hot dogs, pretzels, popcorn, knishes, and beer. Manager Leo Deroucher has been suspended by MLB's offices for conduct detrimental to the team. He'll have to sit out the whole season. Burt Shotton, known to be calm and steady, is managing the Dodgers. They're expected to contend. Red Barber is up in the press booth calling the action for CBS and Gladys Gooding is on the organ. Here with us are stadium celebs like the Dodgers Sym-phony and Hilda Chester the Cowbell Lady, along with more than twenty-six thousand others. These men, women, and children are wearing Dodgers caps, windbreakers, flannel jackets, letterman's sweaters, sport coats, and suits. They're Italian, African-American, Jewish, Irish, Polish, Norwegian. At 12:45 the melting pot stirs as the Dodgers trot out of the clubhouse. There's Second Baseman Eddie Stanky, Center Fielder Peter Reiser, Catcher Bruce Edwards, and pitcher Joe Hatten. Hatten warms up as one by one the rest of the Dodgers starters come out. Right fielder Dixie Walker. Left Fielder Gene Hermanski. Third Baseman Spider Jorgensen, Shortstop Pee Wee Reese. There's an audible buzz as the Dodgers first baseman and final starter comes out. This man was born in Cairo, Georgia. The youngest son of a sharecropper, he was a four-sport letterman at UCLA, and an Army second lieutenant in World War II. His name is Jack Roosevelt Robinson and he's the first African-American to play in the Major Leagues since Moses Fleetwood Walker in 1884. Robinson tosses infield practice until Home Plate umpire Babe Pinell signals for the start of the game. Robinson smooths the dirt in a playing path by first base and sets himself, knees bent, slightly crouched. His glove is on the ground and open. Boston's Shortstop Dick Culler digs in. Brooklyn's lefty Joe Hatten winds and delivers the pitch. Culler swings and slaps a ground ball towards third base. He digs out of the batter's box as Spider Jorgensen charges in and fields the ball on a high hop, throwing slightly off balance towards first base. Robinson, right foot on the bag, stretches as far as he can, catching Jorgensen's throw and getting Culler out by a step. And just like that, a fifty-year old gentleman's agreement between changing owners and the commissioner's office, that had barred any dark skinned men from playing in the league, was dead. It died here in Flatbush at 1PM, on Tuesday April 15th, 1947 as twenty-six thousand people looked on, and wildly cheered. Later, in the bottom of the Seventh inning, after an error while batting allowed him to reach second base, Robinson scored the Dodgers fifth run of the game on a double from Pete Reiser. The Dodgers would win five to three. Although he was the subject of taunts, bean balls, spikes, and scuffles with opposing players and fans all season, Jackie Robinson had the faith of African-Americans and Brooklyn Dodgers fans, as well as the quickly-earned support of his teammates. Robinson would go on to hit .297 with one-hundred-twenty-five runs scored, forty-eight extra-base hits, and lead the league with twenty-nine stolen bases en route to winning the Rookie of the Year as the Brooklyn Dodgers went ninety-four and sixty, winning the National League pennant.

Lovin baseball when we were 12 and innocent. Is a collection of over 50 podcasts conducted by Ralph Zig Tyko with baseball greats, officials and everyday fans like me. It's about the time when we loved the game and looked up to the players. A time of Sunday afternoon doubleheaders, When you could stand down by the railing and watch your heroes warming up, playing catch and being able to hear that wonderful sound of the ball smacking into the pocket of a well worn glove. A time when those gloves smelled like leather and baseball cards smelled like bubble gum and a day at the ballpark was a magical event. When extra innings started with the bases empty and pitchers threw complete games and batted for themselves. A time when Willie, Mickey and the Duke was more than a song and Red Barber was sitting in the catbird seat. I had the priviledge of working with Ralph on his first book, Comfortably Zoned in a Vat o pine tar and can't think of anyone who loves the game of baseball more or who is more qualified to bring you this compilation. I know it was a labor of love for Ralph and I hope you enjoy it!

Zig welcomes Judy Hiltner and James Walker. Topic of discussion is the Life and Times of Red Barber.A Comfortably Zoned Radio Network, production. All of our offerings are archived here. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiQUY00KIKj9RFo2Ruqg4Cg If you enjoy our offerings, we ask that you get in the habit of accumulating lightly used children's books, and donating them to your local Head Start.

EPISODE 136: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:41) The death of baseball's legendary television analyst Tim McCarver, easily one of the most beloved people in the sport, and in broadcasting. I knew him for 42 years and for whatever criticisms he took late in his career from listeners who didn't realize all the other ones were merely doing impressions of him, in 1983 he literally, personally, saved my love of the game. He was a pleasure to work with, and as I have been saying for 20 years, his insight in literally the last 60 seconds of the bottom of the 9th inning of the 7th Game of the most emotional season in baseball history was the television equivalent of Bill Mazeroski's home run to win the 1960 World Series. B-Block (19:55) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: The Fox News texts are out. Tucker Carlson was afraid Trump would destroy them, but telling the truth about him would tank the stock price. He, Ingraham and Hannity all thought Rudy Giuliani was crazy. The News Chief tried to stop news. Perjury in the Trump Atlanta case? How many people did Senator Fetterman help yesterday? Now that he's proven he can live on his own, why is the Central Park Zoo setting a honey trap to re-capture Flaco the Owl? And can anyone stop the Killer Windows of Russia? (25:48) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Nikki Haley would struggle with the math part of her own Presidential Candidate Mental Competency Test, Ann Coulter makes you feel sympathy for Nikki Haley, and a German choreographer says: I am an artist and you have criticized me, so, I will now smear my dog's feces on your face. C-Block (31:50) EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY: Falcon, Rio, Titan, Torino, and Tundra - five pups with Parvo in Texas (32:50) FRIDAYS WITH THURBER: fittingly on the occasion of the loss of a great baseball broadcaster, Thurber's story that begins with the words of another great baseball broadcaster: "The Catbird Seat."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's the 1952 World Series with the Yankees and Dodgers taking it to Game 7. On the Yankees line-up is a certain Mickey Mantle, and his 1952 season is one for the record books. This was the year of the Topps Mickey Mantle Baseball Card… the most expensive baseball card in the world Although Topps' cards debuted in 1951, that year saw a pack more akin to playing cards. 1952 saw the cards we know and love; the picture, the text, and the candy. 407 players, in three sets, but it was Mantle's card which (ahem) came out on top, with a recent auction of one of these cards fetching $12.6 million. But would the player with the most valuable card become the most valuable player in the World Series decider? Mel Allen with Red Barber calls the action. You can find the boxscore here. This game was played on October 7th, 1952. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/classicbaseballradio/message

In today's episode, we're talking to Chris "Big Red" Barber, co-founder and co-leader of the 2022 Canadian Trucker Convoy.

Episode #165: Champion Pitmaster Mike Davis of Lotta Bull BBQ and the Authors of Red Barber: The Life and Legacy of a Broadcasting Legend, Judith Hiltner and James Walker Mike Davis has won over 1,300 BBQ competition awards, which includes 92 Grand Championships and 62 Reserve Grand Championships. He and his wife Debbie have competed for over 30 years. Mike has been on some of the more popular BBQ programs including Smoked, Chopped: Grill Masters, and The All-Star BBQ Showdown. Coincidently, Mike and our co-host for this interview, Doug Scheiding met years ago on the set of Smoked.  Mike is retired from competitive cooking and now enjoys serving food from his food truck several days a week.runs a food truck.  He even has his own line of rubs and sauces.  More information on Mike can be found at https://www.lottabullbbq.com Dr. Judith Hiltner and Dr. James Walker are the authors of Red Barber:  The Life and Legacy of a Broadcasting Legend, an extensive biography on one of the pioneers of broadcasting.  From his beginnings in the deep south to legendary status broadcasting for the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees, this is a look into the fascinating life of this complex man.  Red Barber also authored several books and was a newspaper columnist for many years after broadcasting.  The book is a thorough and fascinating look at Barber's personal and professional life. We recommend you go to Baseball BBQ, https://baseballbbq.com for special grilling tools and accessories, the Pandemic Baseball Book Club, https://www.pbbclub.com  to find many of the wonderful books we have featured as well as some additional swag, Magnechef, https://magnechef.com/ for excellent and unique barbecue gloves,  and Mantis BBQ, https://mantisbbq.com/ to purchase their outstanding sauces with a portion of the proceeds being donated to the Kidney Project. We truly appreciate our listeners and hope that all of you are staying safe. If you would like to contact the show, we would love to hear from you. Call the show:  (516) 855-8214 Email:  baseballandbbq@gmail.com Twitter:  @baseballandbbq Instagram:  baseballandbarbecue YouTube:  baseball and bbq Website:  https//baseballandbbq.weebly.com Facebook:  baseball and bbq

Barber hired Vin Scully We honor one of the greatest baseball sportscasters of all time – Red Barber.  We explore his life and influence.  Ed interviews and thanks Dale Mugford from Brave New Code for our new mobile web site.  Ed then interviews author, speech writer and professor, Curt Smith.  Our podcast concludes as we remember the Ol' Redhead and […]

The 1965 season saw the opening of the Houston Astrodome, and the first Major League Baseball games to be played indoors. For Opening Day, the Yankees were invited to the Astros for an exhibition game to open the Dome. With recordings available for both team broadcasts we can contrast two different legends behind the microphone. In this episode, the Yankee's broadcasting team of Red Barber, Phil Rizzuto, Jerry Coleman and Joe Garagiola, for WCBS. This game was played on April 9th, 1965. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/classicbaseballradio/message

Hello Old Sports is part of the https://sportshistorynetwork.com/ (Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear). EPISODE SUMMARY After some initial confusion, Andrew and Dan dig into the topic of the 1947 World Series one of the most exciting, and important, series in World Series history. it was the first of six World Series that would be played between the New York Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers over the next decade, as well as the first integrated World Series, and the first to be broadcast on television. And it saw a journeyman pitcher almost pitch the first no hitter in World Series history. Join us as we travel back 75 years to this groundbreaking World Series Further Reading: https://www.amazon.com/Electric-October-Minutes-Lasted-Forever/dp/1250116562/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1667352974&sr=8-1 ("Electric October" by Kevin Cook) https://www.amazon.com/1947-Broke-Loose-Baseball-paperback/dp/0306802120/ref=sr_1_1?crid=LIXO8TVK5DWO&keywords=1947+when+all+hell+broke+loose&qid=1667353033&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIwLjAwIiwicXNhIjoiMC4wMCIsInFzcCI6IjAuMDAifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=1947+when+all+hell+broke+loose%2Caps%2C86&sr=8-1 (1947: When All Hell Broke Loose in Baseball by Red Barber) https://www.amazon.com/Opening-Day-Jackie-Robinsons-Season/dp/0743294602/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1667353134&sr=8-1 (Opening Day by Jonathan Eig) Contact the show at HelloOldSports@gmail.com and find us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/HelloOldSports (www.facebook.com/HelloOldSports)

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 615, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Olympic Events 1: Downhill and slalom. Skiing. 2: 100-meter butterfly and 100-meter freestyle. Swimming. 3: 10,000 meters and javelin. Track and field. 4: Individual epee and individual foil. Fencing. 5: Trap and skeet. Shooting. Round 2. Category: Radio Stars 1: This conservative icon describes himself as having "talent on loan from God". Rush Limbaugh. 2: He took over from Red Barber and has been the voice of the Dodgers for almost 50 years. Vin Scully. 3: Kyle Cantrell, operations manager at Nashville's WSM-AM, is the Saturday night announcer for this show. Grand Ole Opry. 4: Heard here, he's been the voice of the U.S. heartland for decades("Now you know the rest of the story"). Paul Harvey. 5: This shock jock rival of Howard Stern is heard "in the Morning" on about 100 stations. Don Imus. Round 3. Category: The Bahamas 1: On July 10, 1973, Prince Charles represented Queen Elizabeth at ceremonies celebrating this. the independence of the Bahamas. 2: With international banking #2, this is the leading industry of the Bahamas. tourism. 3: Although considered part of the region, the Bahamas are not located in this sea. the Caribbean. 4: Of Bimini, New Providence, or Grand Bahama, the island on which you would visit the capital, Nassau. New Providence. 5: To prevent the Germans from kidnapping this ex-king, Churchill sent him to govern the Bahamas. the Duke of Windsor (Edward VIII). Round 4. Category: Nobel Peace Prize Winners 1: 1979: A nun like none other. Mother Teresa. 2: 1990:A Communist party head. Mikhail Gorbachev. 3: 1964: An American clergyman. Martin Luther King, Jr.. 4: 1978: An Israeli and an Egyptian. Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat. 5: 1961:A U.N. Secretary-General. Dag Hammarskjold. Round 5. Category: Green "T" 1: You wouldn't want to meet this scary, royal, supposedly green creature in a dark alley. a Tyrannosaurus rex. 2: Artificial green grass used on a playing field. turf. 3: It's the art of trimming your green bushes and hedges into geometric shapes and animals. topiary. 4: The main ingredient in salsa verde, this small green vegetable, is native to Mexico. the tomatillo. 5: This republic of West Africa with a 4-letter name has 3 green stripes on its flag representing its natural resources. Togo. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

If you like Celery City Stories, and want me to keep telling them, you can buy me a coffee.  Go to https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danping (Buy Me a Coffee). ------- In 1887, the city of Sanford was a bustling hub of commerce. Founded just 10 years prior, Sanford had become the gateway for goods and materials coming into Central Florida and Tampa. The city was also the main distribution point that allowed nearly all of Central Florida's citrus and produce to reach Northern markets. But on the morning of Sept. 22, the city's saloon owners, most likely drunk from an all-night binge  of whiskey and rum, burned the town to the ground. It became known as the Great Fire of 1887. —----- If you're a sports fan, You probably no that Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees broke Roger Maris‘s home run milestone by hitting 62 home runs in a season.  I like to brag that just about anything that happens in the world has some sort of connection to Sanford.  In the case of Aaron Judge it really does. Roger Maris set the Record for home runs in a season on Oct. 1, 1961. And it was Sanford‘s very own Red Barber who made the historic call as the Yankees play by play announcer.   Here's a link thttps://youtu.be/4hSNO_PhSnI (o a YouTube video of Red Barber calling Maris's 61st home run). And if you want to know more about Red Barber here's a link tohttps://www.celerycitystories.com/a-good-wife-and-a-strong-martini-help-change-history/ ( episode 8 of Celery City Stories titled “A good wife and a strong martini helped change history.”)

If you like these Celery City Stories and you want me to keep telling them every week then please buy a cup of coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danping (by following this link.) It was the game football fans had anticipated for weeks. Two powerhouses were set to meet in Atlanta. The crown for Southern football supremacy awaited the winner. (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) The University of Alabama Crimson Tide was undefeated, led by a salty defense that had allowed only 7 points through the first 8 games of the year. Their opponent: The University of Georgia Bulldogs. Georgia, too, was undefeated, and had crushed the Florida Gators the week before by a score of 56-0. Hugh Whelchel was the hero of the game, and that's the Sanford connection. Whechel's 2 blocked kicks in the Alabama game were crucial to the Bulldogs winning the game. The second one that resulted in the winning touchdown is ranked 4th in https://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Georgia-Bulldogs-Football-History/dp/1600781195 (Patrick Garbin's book “The 50 Greatest Plays In Georgia Bulldogs Football History.)” Garbin also notes that Whelchel would ultimately block 19 kicks during his career at Georgia. Whelchel was born Lumpkin County in Northeast Georgia. After graduating from the Univerity of Georgia, he moved to Sanford in 1925. According to his obituary in the April 25, 1968 issue of the Sanford Herald, Whelchel coached the Seminole High School football team in 1926 and 27. https://www.celerycitystories.com/a-good-wife-and-a-strong-martini-help-change-history/ (Red Barber, the subject of last week's Celery City Story), was one of the better players on Whelchel's 1926 team. The quarterback of those teams was Jim Spencer. Long-time Sanford residents will remember Jim Spencer's, which was a very popular restaurant here in town during the 150s, 60s an 70s. I guarantee there will be 2 or 3 Celery City Stories that feature Jim Spencer and his family. For all of his accomplishments on the gridiron, Hugh Whelchel spent most of his time as a successful farmer here in Sanford. When the State Farmer's Market opened in 1930 at French Avenue and Historic Goldsboro Avenue, Mr. Whechel was the second person to set up a stall in the facility. Harold Kastner, who's family has deep farming roots in Sanford, was the first. I don't think many people today what a big economic engine the State Farmer's Market was in Sanford for a long time. I probably need t o do a story on the market at some point. Hugh would never really stop farming, but from 1950 to 1954 he operated the Mayfair Country Club. He worked for Chase & Co. for a few years, and Hugh was also the fertilizer inspector for the state of Florida Department of Agriculture.

FOX GUEST SAYS TRUMP MAY HAVE TAKEN NUCLEAR RETALIATION PLANS A BLOCK: (1:50) We know Trump took nuclear weapons documents, information "among the most sensitive secrets we hold," documents marked "Special Access Programs" (2:19) What if it's even worse? What if it's worse than the worst we could imagine? (3:37) What if every crazy rumor about nuclear codes and invoking of The Rosenbergs is not only apt, but an understatement? (4:23) Biography of former Washington Post and Wall Street Journal investigative reporter Ronald Kessler (5:12) Kessler, a past Trump apologist, appears on Fox News Channel Thursday night (6:30) Kessler says what Trump took "could very well include the plans for counterstriking against Russia in the event of a nuclear attack" (8:50) Or, "penetrations by the CIA of foreign embassies, of foreign leaders like Putin, as well as recruitments of spies overseas." And that the Russians would've been trying to get a spy into Mar-a-Lago, and may have succeeded (11:00) Reinhart poised to release search warrant affidavit with all redactions the government requested (12:08) CNN reports Trump has been getting legal advice from non-lawyer Tom Fitton (12:56) Fox Business reports his web host may sue Trump for non-payment for Truth Social (13:40) We should assume that what's in Trump's Pandora's Box could be worse than we can possibly imagine. B BLOCK: (17:30) Every Dog Has Its Day: Duo-Duo has been saved! And I'm plugging the Schwarzman Animal Center's "AMC To The Rescue" fund to treat shelter and pound pets who need medical help (18:59) Postscripts To The News: White House burns Republicans complaining about Student Loan Forgiveness program who themselves got PPP Loan Forgiveness - like Marjorie Trailer Park Greene (21:27) Who says she was swatted - again (22:01) Bill Barr turns on Trump (22:48) Couple confesses to stealing President's daughter's diary for Project Veritas (23:14) Tim Scott thinks "fruitful" and "fruit-filled" are the same word (25:04) Sports: Bryce Harper returns to the Phillies and that might be BAD news (25:40) Bengals-Rams scrimmage fight recalls Cletus The Slack-Jawed Yokel from The Simpsons (26:19) Anniversary of the ESPN2 show - and song, and the back story of how we launched it to mess with Fox (32:00) Jared Kushner, Doug Mastriano, and Ron DeSantis compete for Worst Persons dishonors. C BLOCK: (37:13) Time for James Thurber and a short story that invokes Red Barber and Vin Scully (37:50) And might've become a film directed by Burt Lancaster (38:00) Regardless, it's one of his best: The Catbird Seat.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you like the show, https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danping (Buy me a Coffee) and become a sponsor. Welcome, I'm glad you joined me. This Celery City Story is the first one I wrote when I thought I might want to start a podcast. Whenever significant changes in history take place,  there are a series of events - both big and small - that have to occur before the transformation can happen.  This is a story about a small event that was part of a monumental change An editor's note: In the story you just heard, I've added some brief dialogue. Those quotes were created for dramatic purposes. I have no way of knowing EXACTLY what was said.  However, the story is factual and it did happen. I used a number of resources, most notably, https://www.amazon.com/Branch-Rickey-Penguin-Lives-Breslin/dp/B0062GK0LU (Jimmy Breslin's biography of Branch Rickey), who was Red Barber's boss, and the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers. I also used a https://www.amazon.com/Red-Barber-Legacy-Broadcasting-Legend/dp/1496222857 (new biography on Red Barber by Judith R. Hiltner and James R. Walker.) Also, there's a good documentary about legendary radio broadcasters that Larry King did in 1989 called, https://youtu.be/pJNNH2Rizt8 (“Ball Talk: Baseball's Voices of Summer.”) In that documentary, there is a clip of Red Barber talking about the day his boss, Branch Rickey, told him he planned to integrate baseball. Red shares his reaction to the news, and tells a brief story about his conversation with his wife Lylah.

About the Book Born and raised in rural Mississippi and the even balmier climes of central Florida, Red Barber, at the age of thirty-two, became one of New York City's most influential citizens as the play-by-play announcer for the Brooklyn Dodgers. When he arrived in 1939, Barber brought the down-home drawl and idioms of his southern roots to the borough, where residents said they could walk down any street and never miss a pitch because his voice wafted out of every window and every passing car. From his colorful expressions like “rhubarb” and “sitting in the catbird seat” to his vivid use of similes—a close game was “tighter than a new pair of shoes on a rainy day”—Barber's influence on his contemporaries and the many generations of broadcasters who followed him cannot be overstated. But behind all the base hits, balls, and strikes lies a compelling story that dramatizes the shifting expectations and roles of a public figure—the sports broadcaster—as he adapted to complex cultural changes throughout the course of twentieth-century American life. Author Bio Judith R. Hiltner is professor emeritus of literature and languages at Saint Xavier University and the author of books and articles on American literature and culture, including critical and biographical studies of Herman Melville, Philip Freneau, and Deborah Sampson. James R. Walker is professor emeritus of communication at Saint Xavier University and a past executive director of the International Association of Communication and Sport. He is the author of several books, including Crack of the Bat: A History of Baseball on the Radio (Nebraska, 2015), and is the coauthor of Center Field Shot: A History of Baseball on Television (Nebraska, 2008). --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steve-richards/support

In between Season 2 and the premiere of Season 3 (August 17th) I will be releasing some  "Lost Ballparks Shorts" - pocket sized podcasts that highlight a particular broadcaster or old ballpark. Hope you enjoy this first one traveling back to the 1940's and '50's when Red Barber was in the "Catbird Seat" broadcasting Brooklyn Dodger games from Ebbets Field. -MikeSupport the show

Doug Miles talks with James Walker author “Red Barber: The Life and Legacy of a Broadcasting Legend” on “Talk Across America”. Book available at www.dougmilesmedia.com.

Hi Wheels here today on the show we have A full crew tonight and special guest @alek is back on the show - We start off the show with some banter about cricket and our listener demographics - @skweeed continues to dominate in the video game world and he just got his 100th platinum trophy on Playstation - Glorious Leader is not so familiar with hair metal bands - @skweeed might be podcasting on the side and already may have a space yacht - All the boys listened to a great new audio drama #BatmanUnburied and we discuss - Some more movie talk with the boys including talk about actors Danielle Radcliffe and Tom Hardy - The boys also talk about the great Wes Anderson and his quirky awesome hipster movies - YAY!! we brought back Alek for Alek's Travel Storytime - Finally we end the show with some Oilers talk and @tincanblues secret twitter account, and a special treat from our fact checker abroad @schrute1 Our Website: http://wheelsbluespodcast.wixsite.com https://www.instagram.com/wheelsbluespod https://www.instagram.com/tincanblues https://www.instagram.com/justinriedler https://www.instagram.com/iameric_83 https://www.instagram.com/skweed_love Discord:https://discord.gg/7MEJF7T Twitter: @WheelsBlues @krippledkratos @tincanblues @Eric__83 @Skweeed Email:@wheelsbluespodcast@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wheelsbluespodcast/message

James Walker joins Talkin' Baseball with Marty to talk about his new book -- "Red Barber: The Life and Legacy of a Broadcasting Legend." Red Barber follows the trajectory of Barber's long career from radio and television play-by-play man for the Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn Dodgers, and New York Yankees to his work calling college and professional football games See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

James Walker joins Talkin' Baseball with Marty to talk about his new book -- "Red Barber: The Life and Legacy of a Broadcasting Legend." Red Barber follows the trajectory of Barber's long career from radio and television play-by-play man for the Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn Dodgers, and New York Yankees to his work calling college and professional football games See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In our latest edition of our Author Interview Series, recent interview subject Andy McCue goes to the other side of the microphone to discuss "Red Barber: The Life and Legacy of a Broadcasting Legend" with it's co-authors Judith R. Hiltner and James R. Walker. They discuss the voice behind the legendary Brooklyn Dodgers, what he meant to broadcasting and the game overall.

Dave Schultz and Stephen Root talk to James walker about his new book on Red Barber and Eagles, Sixers with Eytan Shander! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wnsp/support

We're in the catbird seat as author James R. Walker joins us to discuss his biography of legendary baseball broadcaster Red Barber. 

We catch up with Bob Costas here on flexxCOACH's "Inside the Game". Bob discusses his early days of playing sports as a kid in New York. Just having fun with his friends. He was cut from his high school teams but knew his future was in broadcasting. He tells of how he would listen to Red Barber, Mel Allen, and Phil Rizzuto called the games for the Yankees. Vin Scully would call the games for the Dodgers, Marty Glickman was the voice of the New York Giants. One voice really caught his attention, Marv Albert was the voice of the New York Knicks and he was only 27 years old. Bob thought wow he is so young and has this amazing job. Bob wound up at Syracuse because of the broadcasting department and in his senior year became the voice of the Syracuse Blazers in the EHL. The same league that the movie "Slap Shot" was based off of. Bob has great stories of starting out as the radio play by play voice of the team. He tells the story of Bill "Harpo" Goldthorpe on the team bus with him. It is a great listen to the beginnings of Bob's career. 

This is a snippet from Breaking Walls Episode 116: The Launch of NBC's Monitor (1955) ___________ With Monitor announced, a huge facility was being built on the fifth floor of 30 Rockefeller Plaza. It would be called Radio Central. NBC's next steps were to identify key personalities to be featured. Jim Fleming was named executive producer. In a memo he detailed why the name “Monitor” was chosen. During the war, newsmen monitored the short-waves for information, now they'd be monitoring the entire country and NBC's network. The name suggested alertness, service, vigilance, and a sense of responsibility. These men and women wouldn't be announcers, they'd be “communicators.” One radio veteran in the fold was Ben Grauer. Born in New York in 1908, he was a child actor who became an NBC staff announcer in 1930. Grauer covered olympic games, announced for Walter Winchell's Jergen's Journal, and was hand selected by Arturo Tuscani to support NBC's Symphony Orchestra. By World War II he was a senior commentator and reporter. Communicators would be drawn from a wide-pool of talent and paired. Some of the people suggested were Alene Francis, Morgan Beatty, Hugh Downs, Red Barber, Goodman & Jane Ace, Fred Allen, Bob Trout, Faye Emerson, Bob & Ray, Frank Blair, Burgess Meredith, Boris Karloff, Bennett Cerf, and Dave Garroway. Garroway was a radio veteran and jazz hound who had an unusual, homespun way of talking to his audience. He'd entered TV in 1949 with Garroway At Large. As he mentioned earlier, he'd been hosting Today since January of 1952. But Garroway initially wanted no part of Monitor. However, Pat Weaver asked him personally, and Garroway trusted Weaver implicitly. He agreed. On Monday May 2nd, the network produced a closed circuit practice hour. With the format all but set, it was time for a soft launch.

Barber hired Vin Scully We honor one of the greatest baseball sportscasters of all time – Red Barber.  We explore his life and influence.  Ed interviews and thanks Dale Mugford from Brave New Code for our new mobile web site.  Ed then interviews author, speech writer and professor, Curt Smith.  Our podcast concludes as we remember the Ol' Redhead and […]

Rivera talks about his thoughts on the new taunting rules. The Football Team loves Taylor Heinicke. Al Michaels on the ManningCast and what's next for Peyton Manning? Red Barber on this day... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this second in a series of Baseball Hall of Fame books, celebrate the larger-than-life role played by radio and TV baseball announcers in enhancing the pleasure of our national pastime.Commemorate the 100th anniversary of baseball broadcasting. The first baseball game ever broadcast on radio was on August 5, 1921 by Harold Wampler Arlin, a part-time baseball announcer on Pittsburgh's KDKA, America's first commercially licensed radio station. The Pirates defeated the Phillies 8-5.An insider's view of baseball. Now you can own Memories from the Microphone and experience baseball from author Curt Smith. He has spent much of his life covering baseball radio and TV, and previously authored baseball books including the classic Voices of The Game.Relive baseball's storied past through the eyes of famed baseball announcers. Organized chronologically, Memories from the Microphone charts the history of baseball broadcasting. Enjoy celebrated stories and personalities that have shaped the game―from Mel Allen to Harry Caray, Vin Scully to Joe Morgan, Ernie Harwell to Red Barber.HOST:  Rob MellonFEATURED BREW:  Batting 1000 Red Lager, Beltway Brewing Company, Sterling, VirginiaBOOK:  Memories from the Microphone: A Century of Baseball Broadcastinghttps://shop.baseballhall.org/memories-from-the-microphone/MUSIC:  Bones Fork

As the 1961 season was winding down, the New York Yankees went on a tear, reeling off 13 consecutive wins. Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris continued to hit home runs, but a disturbing incident at Yankee Stadium, highlighted a doubleheader between the Yankees and the Cleveland Indians.On Sep. 10, in the first game of a doubleheader, Indians outfielder Jimmy Piersall was attacked by two fans, but Piersall fought back. It was one of several incidents that highlighted a bizarre afternoon of baseball at the "big ballpark in the Bronx," as Yankees' broadcaster Red Barber used to refer to the Stadium. All this and more highlight the latest episode of my Baseball Sixty One podcast.

The home run race is full steam ahead for Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, as the Yankees maintain their grip on first place. While appearing on broadcaster Red Barber's Yankees pregame show, Mantle and Maris are asked about Commissioner Ford Frick's edict that in order to break Babe Ruth's single-season home run record they would have to do it within 154 games and not the new 162-game season.Recently retired slugger Ted Williams also makes a prediction about the home run race and the 1961 World Series winner. And to add even more fuel to the fire, Yankees manager Ralph Houk is fined and suspended for five games.All this and more are a part of this latest episode.

Ken riffs from topic to topic; everything from Jean Smart's new show “Hacks,” to Toronto, Kurtwood Smith, Gal Gadot, a power failure, making Claire Danes laugh, advice from Red Barber, and getting smacked by Wayne Newton. More podcasts at WAVE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/artist/wave-podcast-network/1437831426

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My podcast is undergoing a name change, from "The Baseball Beat" to "The Baseball Podcast."  In the podcast, I explain why the name change has been undertaken. Also, April 15 is "Jackie Robinson Day" throughout major league baseball.  I talk about the day and also about an interview I did with Negro League baseball star and Hall of Fame player Buck Leonard. Below are links to stories I discussed in the podcast. Buck Leonard interview Red Barber interview

Pitchers can flirt with a no-hitter during the course of a game, but if it’s broken up, it’s no no-no. Jesse Goldberg-Strassler describes the many terms for a no-hitter in this week’s edition of Tales from the Baseball Thesaurus.A no-hitter is rare enough, but there have been cases of both pitchers simultaneously throwing a no-hitter, both in the minors and the majors. May 7, 1919: the Cubs’ Hippo Vaughn and the Reds’ Fred Toney both notch no-nos for nine innings. What happened next involves a single run and Jim Thorpe.And you can’t discuss a no-hitter without discussing the no-hitter jinx: discussing the no-hitter will inevitably cause the pitcher to lose the no-hitter. What did broadcasters like Red Barber and Vin Scully think about the no-hitter jinx? Goldberg-Strassler shares their thoughts on the no-hitter jinx, as well as other phrases comprising the colorful patois of America’s Pastime. You can find The Baseball Thesaurus at augustpublications.com.Our Ballpark Digest Broadcaster Chat is also available as an audio-only podcast. You can subscribe to the Ballpark Digest podcasts here:Subscribe at Apple iTunesSubscribe at SpotifySubscribe at StitcherSubscribe at Amazon MusicSubscribe at iHeart RadioSubscribe at Pandora

Barber hired Vin Scully We honor one of the greatest baseball sportscasters of all time – Red Barber.  We explore his life and influence.  Ed interviews and thanks Dale Mugford from Brave New Code for our new mobile web site.  Ed then interviews author, speech writer and professor, Curt Smith.  Our podcast concludes as we remember the Ol’ Redhead and […]

Joe Gallagher discusses working with two of the legends of baseball broadcasting, Mel Allen and Red Barber.  We also discuss some of the modern play-by-play guys.  Who do you think is (or was) the best?

Today in history: First televised baseball game. University of Michigan founded. 19th Amendment to US Constitution. Soviet Union tests ballistic missle.   See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

From October 2011: Phil Gries joins Ed for a special edition of the Sounds of Lost Television that commemorates how TV covered New York Yankees slugger Roger Maris' then-record 61st home run, which he hit on Oct. 1, 1961, the final day of the 1961 Major League Baseball season. This segment includes audio highlights of Yankees announcer Red Barber interviewing manager Ralph Houk after the game, which Maris and the Yankees won, 1-0, over the Boston Red Sox. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Major League Baseball about to launch its truncated Covid season on July 23, the sport has a golden opportunity to win back the fans. And as I describe in the podcast, charity could be the beneficiary. Believe it or not, it has to with those "fan cut outs" located behind home plate. Plus, how many people remember broadcaster Jerry Coleman? He was beloved in San Diego, where he broadcast Padres games for decades. Coleman, who died in 2014, is in the broadcasters wing of the baseball Hall of Fame. But how many people remember Jerry Coleman the manager? Yes, he managed the Padres for one season and I dip into my archives to play an interview I recorded with manager Coleman in the visitors' dugout at Shea Stadium. Coleman was the only major league player to see active duty in both World War II and the Korean War. And who else can say he was a World Series MVP (1950), roomed with Mickey Mantle and broadcast games with Mel Allen, Red Barber, Phil Rizzuto and Joe Garagiola? Jerry Coleman can. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioALzM98jaQ

LIVE at 4pm ET, we welcome back Brooklyn born Larry King to the Bedford & Sullivan podcast! Today, we will focus on Larry's childhood in the 30's...his first memories of Brooklyn, first memories of the Dodgers, as well as his first memories of baseball on the radio. So, join us LIVE at 4pm ET for the latest edition of the Bedford & Sullivan podcast!

In 1955 NBC, CBS, ABC, and Mutual Broadcasting were looking for ways to pivot programming with cost-effectiveness and a more mobile audience in mind. Studies were showing that at least half of radio's audiences were now coming from automobile or transistor sets. Yet, there was still only rudimentary ways to measure these ratings. With network radio drama was winding down in the 1950s in favor of more news, talk, and music, NBC launched Monitor on June 12th, 1955 with this closed circuit broadcast. Monitor was a true magazine of the air, running over NBC stations on Saturday mornings in four-hour blocks. When it first began, it took over NBC’s airtime for the entire weekend. It was the brainchild of legendary NBC radio and television network president Pat Weaver, whose career bridged classic radio and television's infancy and who sought to keep radio alive in a television age. Believing that broadcasting could and should educate as well as entertain, Weaver fashioned a series to do both with some of the best-remembered and best-regarded names in broadcasting, entertainment, journalism, and literature taking part. Monitor offered actualities, remotes, comedy, and variety. Segments were hosted by and featured by the likes of NBC announcers Dave Garroway and Ben Grauer, to baseball’s Red Barber, to Ms. Monitor Tedi Thurman who did weather reports, and to comedians Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding. The show aired from a custom-designed, mammoth NBC studio on the fifth floor of the RCA Building in New York City called Radio Central. Monitor remained on the air until January 26th, 1975.

本集邀請兩位專業職棒球評「曾公」曾文誠先生與「喇叭」潘忠韋先生，來聊聊他們的棒球經歷與講球生涯，以及兩人合著的新書《如何當個好球評》，話題包括：兩人寫書的動機(04:54)、把「球具」放在第一章的原因(13:12)、播報中職與美職的準備工作差異(21:01)、球員與球評之間的關係(31:18)、球評是不是當球隊總教練的墊腳石(34:45)、那些沒辦法從數據看出的比賽環節(38:26)、對於棒球賽「三振、保送、全壘打」愈來愈多的想法(48:30)、不做球評的話會想做什麼(01:00:55)。 「人物我來講」介紹大聯盟史上首位電視球賽播報員 Red Barber(01:07:47)。數據單元則分享雙城隊在季後賽的各種悲情數據(01:18:07)、Didi Gregorius 不凡的季後賽滿貫砲(01:23:08)、Max Scherzer 後援時的威力(01:24:50)，以及 Gerrit Cole 超強的季後賽首戰宰制力(01:28:18)。 *《Hito 大聯盟》官網：https://hitomlb.com/ *聽眾信箱，歡迎來信：https://hitomlb.com/mailbox-1f53ab352061

TVC 463.6: This Week in TV History: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the first televised Major League Baseball game, which was broadcast on Aug. 26, 1939 on New York station W2XBS, which later became WNBC-TV. Red Barber called the game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Radio News Segment Major radio groups begin reporting their second quarter results. We let you know what is happening on the street, and we begin our look at the Neilson July Personal People meter Ratings. Featured Station Segment Wioe fm Fort Wayne In with a classic hits format.http://wioe.com/site/ Classic Aircheck

Most entertainment news is generated on the east or west coasts and not in the heartland. Yet, John Kiesewetter spent 40 professional years at the “Cincinnati Enquirer” and three decades as its “Television Critic” writing everything from local criticism to major features. After his job was eliminated at the Enquirer, his career continues to this day. He is now the TV/Media reporter for Cincinnati Public Radio, WVXU FM and wvxu.org. There he writes an almost daily blog, and contributes on-air interviews to various locally generated radio programs. “I had a great run when newspapers were great, when papers had big features staffs and money to travel,” Kiesewetter says. Travel allowed him access to major celebrities and the latest in entertainment news. But, Kiesewetter doesn’t want just any story. Instead, he focuses on stories he thinks are important to the average listener and reader. That philosophy has served him well. He tells us how he traveled to meet stars as well as talking with celebrities who came through Cincinnati. He has talked with classic comic performers like Lucille Ball, Bob Newhart, Bob Hope, Stan Freberg, Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner, Steve Allen, Red Skelton, Don Knotts, Andy Griffith and Bill Cosby. He also focused on celebrities with local Southwest Ohio backgrounds such as: George Clooney, Woody Harrelson, Martin Sheen, Rob Lowe, Allison Janney, Johnathan Winters, David Letterman and sports commentator Dan Patrick. The list of stars he has interviewed is endless and his stories are captivating. In addition to covering the typical entertainment fare, Kiesewetter started critiquing local newscasts and anchors and he has a passion for sports commentators and play-by-play people such as Red Barber, Bob Costas, Al Michaels, Chris Collinsworth, Pete Rose, Joe Nuxhall and Marty Brennamen. He is currently writing a book about the life of former Cincinnati Reds pitcher and long-time broadcaster Joe Nuxhall. “I think part of my success as a TV/Media writer is my solid news training, so I could cover a breaking story, see a trend story, and write a news personality profile, either on a local or a national level,” Kiesewetter adds. “I wasn’t a real flashy writer, but I was informative as hell.”

In this episode, Rob Adams plays a long portion of a 1939 spring training baseball broadcast between the Cincinnati Reds and the New York Yankees. Red Barber calls the action by interpreting the code off a Western Union telegraph. Hockey also shines for a moment, with a visit to legendary Boston announcer Fred Cusick.

Where will free agent Bryce Harper end up?  And Major League Baseball cracks down on stealing signs.   Those are some of the topics I talk about in the latest edition of The Baseball Beat. Baseball is determined to stymie clubs from using the latest technology to steal signs.  And even though Manny Machado has signed with the San Diego Padres, there is still tension between the owners and players over free agency signings.  I talk about that and other recent baseball topics. Also, I look back at the late, great Red Barber, one of the pioneer, baseball broadcasters.  I interviewed Red in 1978 and provide some background in the podcast.  I also replay the interview I recorded with Red, who along with Mel Allen, were the first broadcasters to be inducted into the broadcasters wing of the baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.

On the 100th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's birth, Joe Cox joins us to discuss the enormous impact Robinson had on the lives of people who knew him. From Pee Wee Reese to Red Barber to Dixie Walker, Robinson helped change lives. Featured song: "Better Git It in Your Soul," by Charles Mingus.

Un nuevo capítulo de los mejores narradores de la historia del béisbol, esta vez toca Red Barber.

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April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson makes MLB debut Background: Major League Baseball had been segregated since the late 1800s, even though many teams played in cities that were generally regarded as progressive like New York, Philadelphia, and Boston. Some of the most talented players in the history of the game like Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson were relegated to the Negro League, which was extremely popular among the African American community but was generally ignored by the majority of white baseball fans. In 1945 Branch Rickey, general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers changed the status quo by signing Jackie Robinson, a Negro League star, to a minor league deal. Robinson was a gifted athlete, lettering in four sports at UCLA: football, basketball, baseball, and track. After a year with the Montreal Royals (where he led the minor leagues in batting average), the shortstop was slated to make his debut at Ebbets Field against the Boston Braves on Opening Day, April 15, 1947. The Rookie Season: Robinson made his debut for the Dodgers, going 0-3 that day. Many Dodger fans and even some players were conflicted about supporting an African American player trying to integrate one of America’s most beloved institutions. Dodgers announcer Red Barber famously considered quitting his dream job over calling a game with an African American player, as stated in an interview shortly before his death. Everywhere Robinson went, there were threats made by opposing players and fans, and when the team traveled south he was forced to face state-sanctioned segregation on buses, in hotels, and even at the ballpark. A 1951 letter sent to the Cincinnati Reds said “ROBINSON WE ARE GOING TO KILL YOU IF YOU ATTEMPT TO ENTER A BALLGAME AT CROSLEY FIELD.” Nevertheless, Robinson played through these hardships, earning Rookie of the Year honors in 1947 and National League MVP in 1949. He helped the Dodgers to a World Series Title in 1955. Aftermath/ Legacy: Although Robinson’s debut was a landmark event in American racial history, getting baseball fully integrated was a lengthy conquest. The Red Sox were the last team to integrate, in 1959. Even so it’s clear that Robinson made a major impact, particularly in empowering African American youth, who regarded him as a hero. To see a black man playing on the same stage as white stars dented the idea of white supremacy that had infiltrated the minds of many young African Americans, who would be a part of the generation that would lead the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. Major League Baseball was one of a number of institutions that would integrate in the late 1940s, such as the Armed Services in 1948. Integration in public schools wouldn’t begin until 1954, but Robinson’s debut was certainly a significant early step in the direction of equal rights.

This week on StoryWeb: David Sedaris’s essay “The Santaland Diaries.” For Julia and Jim, my favorite David Sedaris fans My sister, Julia, is one of David Sedaris’s biggest fans. She and my husband, Jim, love giggling together over favorite passages from Sedaris’s droll radio essays. While Sedaris is an accomplished writer, it is in his oral delivery of his essays – his readings – that he really makes his mark. Sure, you can recite a favorite line or try to imitate him doing “Away in a Manager” as Billie Holiday, but really, why try? Only David Sedaris can really do David Sedaris. Sedaris’s breakout came when he recorded “The Santaland Diaries” for NPR’s Morning Edition in December 1992, his debut for national public radio. When the essay was broadcast, more people requested a tape of it than any Morning Edition story up to that time (except for the death of beloved NPR commentator Red Barber.)  Small in stature, Sedaris recalls landing a gig (if you can call it that) as Crumpet the Elf in Macy’s Santaland. He played Crumpet for two seasons at the Macy’s store in New York’s Herald Square. If you are familiar with Sedaris’s work, you know that this bizarre set-up – small gay man meets American capitalist Christmas extravaganza – is the perfect vehicle for Sedaris’s storytelling. How did Sedaris make it to the big time? Radio host Ira Glass discovered him in a Chicago club where Sedaris was reading from his diary. Glass invited Sedaris to appear on his weekly local program, The Wild Room. “I owe everything to Ira,” says Sedaris. “My life just changed completely, like someone waved a magic wand.” Since his big break on NPR, Sedaris has been a frequent contributor to Glass’s nationally distributed public radio program, This American Life. Are Sedaris’s essays true? Alexander S. Heard – in an article for The New Republic – went to the trouble of fact-checking some of the essays and found holes (sometimes gaping holes) in Sedaris’s tales. He did work at Macy’s Santaland, and Bob Rutan, a Macy’s executive, recalls him as “an outstanding elf.” But given the controversy surrounding the factuality of the essays, NPR now clearly labels “The Santaland Diaries” – a perennial holiday favorite – as fiction. And Sedaris himself in a note in his 2009 book, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, acknowledged that his tales are “realish.” (For more on the controversy over the “truth” behind Sedaris’s essays, check out an article in the Washington Post.) Ready to explore more of Sedaris’s work? Check out his 1994 collection, Barrel Fever, or his 1997 collection, Holidays on Ice, both of which include “The Santaland Diaries.” Other volumes include: Naked (1998), Me Talk Pretty One Day (2001), Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2005), and Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls (2014). These books are also available as audio recordings – and if you want the full David Sedaris experience, I recommend investing in The Ultimate David Sedaris Box Set. To learn more, visit Sedaris’s official website – and if you want to stay up to date on all things David Sedaris, you can follow him on Facebook or sign up for his newsletter. You can also listen to and read excerpts from a 2013 Terry Gross interview with Sedaris on Fresh Air. Visit thestoryweb.com/Sedaris for links to all these resources and to listen as David Sedaris reads “The Santaland Diaries” in its entirety. A shorter except is also available. This holiday season revisit David Sedaris’s “The Santaland Diaries” – or if you’ve never heard it before, sit back, buckle up, and get ready for some rip-roaring laughter.  

In I'M WITH YA, DUKE, by Oscar and Tony winner Herb Gardner (A Thousand Clowns, I'm Not Rappaport), Jerry Stiller plays a fruit vendor dreaming of the good old days when Duke Snider played for the Brooklyn Dodgers and there was someone "ya could root for." Duke and the other Dodgers who won the 1947 pennant: Amoros, Gilliam, Campanella, Furillo, Hodges, Padres are his heart and Red Barber his voice as he faces impending surgery, know-it-all doctors and crazy kids. Featuring Jerry Stiller ("Seinfeld"), Fiana Toibin, and Gordon MacDonald ("Saving Grace"). Directed by John Rando (Tony winner Urinetown). Stay tuned after the performance for a conversation with the director moderated by our Artistic Director, Claudia Catania. Playing on Air is a public radio show and podcast featuring great American short plays with great American actors. We distribute audio productions of contemporary short plays, translating stage works into enduring modern radio theater. We aim to redefine radio drama for today's digital, mobile audience  

When we think of iconic Yankee Stadium, we remember jam-packed crowds cheering Hall of Fame players. But back in the 1960s, struggling Yankee teams played in a half-filled ballpark. We’ll look at the unique story of broadcaster Red Barber, and how his final game was in an empty Bronx stadium.  Writer David J. Halberstam spins the compelling tale. Also- NBA Training Camps are underway and the excitement is building in Sacramento where the Kings will tip-off in their new Golden 1 Center arena.  SB Nation reporter Blake Ellington just toured the venue and has an update. Plus, Stadiums USA's Mark Madorin looks at beer sales at college football stadiums and what's next for an Oakland group looking to build a new stadium in the bay area.

   Baseball broadcasting legend Walter “Red” Barber was born in Columbus, Mississippi, in 1908. In this episode, he recalls his humble beginnings and taking his family to see the beautiful homes there after becoming successful.    Barber began working at the campus radio station while in college as a way to earn extra money.  He soon realized he wanted a career in sportscasting. Barber was just starting out when he met fellow Mississippian, Dizzy Dean. He shares his memories of the famous pitcher. As a play-by-play sportscaster, Barber was driven to be the best.  He claims learning about each man on the team before the game allowed him to “talk with his eyes.”    In a 40 year career calling games for the Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees, Barber was famous for his colorful vocabulary and distinctive catch-phrases like "Sittin' in the catbird seat," "Walkin' in the tall cotton,” and "Slicker than boiled okra.” In a podcast extra, he discusses the inspiration for a couple of the more famous ones.  

“I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.”  -President Gerald R. FordRadio has brought the sounds of baseball into homes for almost one hundred years.  The first All-Star Game, Lou Gehrig’s farewell speech, Bobby Thomson’s “Shot Heard ’Round the World.”  Red Barber, Vin Scully, Harry Caray, Ernie Harwell, Bob Uecker, and dozens of other beloved announcers helped cement the love affair between radio and the national pastime. Crack of the Bat: A History of Baseball on the Radio takes readers from the 1920s to the present.  Despite cable television’s ubiquity, live video streaming, and social media, radio remains an important medium through which fans engage with their teams. Even in changing times, the familiar sounds of the ball hitting the glove and the satisfying crack of the bat stay the same.Pull up a chair and listen in to our Clubhouse conversation with James Walker.  An evening well spent...

Online recaps of Mad Men or Breaking Bad can be as much fun as the shows themselves. So why not recap classic literature -- like, say, Dante's Inferno? A literary website is doing just that. And, you've heard about the First World and the Third World -- so where in the world is the Second World? Plus, animal stories, including how the aardvark got three A's in its name, and why the catbird seat is the place to be. Also, the origins of crackerjack, mall, mad money, and the admonition you might want horns, but you're gonna die butt-headed! FULL DETAILSShopping malls take their name from the fashionable street now known as Pall Mall in London's St. James area. The game of pall-mall, which involves hitting a ball with a wooden mallet, was once played there.Listen up, Scrabble players! Zax is a real word that refers to a kind of roofing tool. A small eating place where the food is not particularly good is sometimes called a grab-it-and-growl.A crackerjack fellow is someone who's excellent or first-rate. It's most likely the same positive sense of crack found in terms like cracking good, crack team, and crack shot.The idiom rob Peter to pay Paul, means "to borrow someone from someone in order to repay someone else." In Nicaragua, the same idea is expressed by a phrase that translates as take Juan's clothes to give them to Pedro.Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a game of phrases involving the letter B.Mad money is the emergency cash a woman tucked away to get home safely if an evening out went badly. These days, it's largely been replaced by cell phones.There's a First World and a Third World, but what about a Second World? The Soviet Bloc countries once made up the Second World, but these terms are becoming increasingly irrelevant.In an earlier episode, we played a game in which we raised the ante on words with hidden "numbers" inside them. For example, forever became five-ever. Many listeners wrote to share Victor Borge's hilarious Inflationary Language video along the same lines.The legendary baseball announcer Red Barber is credited with popularizing the term the catbird seat, the enviable position in poker where you're last to bet. James Thurber amusing story "The Catbird Seat" published in The New Yorker helped popularize it even further.Name developer and language observer Nancy Friedman tweeted this curious tracking notice from UPS: "Your package has experienced an exception."What do you say to the person next to you on the swings who's in sync with you? How about, Get out of my bathtub!There's some great stuff out there on the web. Among our current favorites are Stan Carey's blog Sentence First, and The Paris Review, where they're recapping Dante's Inferno.The animal called an aardvark takes its name from an Afrikaans term meaning "earth pig." The word is cognate with the English words earth and pork.Meetup is an increasingly common substitute for meeting, especially when the gathering's meant to be less formal and attendance is optional. About that inflationary language: Writing on our Facebook page, Jen Lynch inflated the word tuba, calling it a threeba.You might want horns, but you're gonna die butt-headed! This expression derives from butt-headed, meaning "without horns," and shows up in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston.This episode was hosted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett.--A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donateGet your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:Email: words@waywordradio.orgPhone: United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673London +44 20 7193 2113Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donateSite: http://waywordradio.org/Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2015, Wayword LLC.

It's the art of constructive feedback: If you're a teacher with a mountain of papers to grade, you may find yourself puzzling over which kinds of notes in the margins work best. Martha and Grant discuss strategies for effective paper-grading. And when your inbox is full of spam and LinkedIn requests, even a bad emailed joke starts to look good. Martha shares one, along with some riddles from Portuguese and Spanish. And that slithering reptile in the garage -- is it a garden snake, a gardener snake, or a garter snake? Plus, creek vs. crick, the origins of shank, rhubarb, and ping me, and the devil is beating his wife.FULL DETAILSIf you have seven oranges in one hand and six in the other, what have you got? "Really big hands"--and a really bad joke.When it's raining and sunny at the same time, Brazilians say there's a marriage between a fox and a nightingale, and South Africans say it's a monkey's wedding. Those images are far happier than an American phrase for the same meteorological phenomenon, the devil is beating his wife. In each case, the common thread seems to be that it's a supernatural occurrence.When a jacket's been on the hanger too long, the shoulders get punched out, meaning they become distended. The same principle is behind the term butt-sprung, which describes a skirt that's distended by the wearer, and now applies to anything that's worn out.The sportscaster Red Barber popularized the term rhubarb, meaning a scuffle on the baseball mound. It has now expanded to various kinds of arguments. Try this riddle translated from Spanish: I come from singing parents but I'm not a singer, I have a white body and a yellow heart. What am I?Attention Sue Grafton fans: A is for Amusing might be a good title for this week's puzzle from Quiz Guy John Chaneski.A Florida State University professor is tired of writing the same comments over and over on student papers. He wonders about the most effective written feedback, and specifically, whether there's a better way to say a paragraph is particularly well-written or clearly written.I went to Paris, I went to Egypt, I've been to New York, and I will be going to Rome. I do this by sitting in a corner. Who am I?Is that serpent in the garage a garter snake, a garden snake, a gardener snake, or a mouse snake? All are apt names for the same snake, but the original is garter snake, which takes its name from the sartorial accessory.A riddle in rhyme: What does a man love more than life /Fear more than death or mortal strife / What the poor have, the rich require /And what contented men desire / What the miser spends and the spendthrift saves/ And all men carry to their graves?In the Northern Midwest, creek is often pronounced crick. Slang lovers rejoice! Green's Dictionary of Slang is going online, along with an impressive timeline tracking slang involving alcohol.Ping, as in ping me, meaning "contact me," comes from the onomatopoeic ping we get from technology such as sonar. There's a word where the first two letters signify a male, the first three signify a female, the first four signify a great man, and the whole word means a great woman. Do you know it?I know, right?! is a friendly way to acknowledge that you understand someone.A riddle translated from Portuguese: Why is it that the bull climbs the hill?A prison employee wants to know about the term shank, that name for sharp weapons made with toothbrushes and pieces of metal. It derives from shank in the sense of the type of animal bone historically used in weapon making.The good thing about lending someone your time machine? You pretty much get it back immediately. "I know, right?!"This episode was hosted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett.--A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donateGet your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:Email: words@waywordradio.orgPhone: United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673London +44 20 7193 2113Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donateSite: http://waywordradio.org/Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2015, Wayword LLC.

From Vin Scully, Red Barber, and Ernie Harwell to Bob Costas, Joe Buck and Tim McCarver, Coach and I talk about the voices that have told the game through Radio and Television.

Online recaps of Mad Men or Breaking Bad can be as much fun as the shows themselves. So why not recap classic literature -- like, say, Dante's Inferno? A literary website is doing just that. And, you've heard about the First World and the Third World -- so where in the world is the Second World? Plus, animal stories, including how the aardvark got three A's in its name, and why the catbird seat is the place to be. Also, the origins of crackerjack, mall, mad money, and the admonition you might want horns, but you're gonna die butt-headed! FULL DETAILSShopping malls take their name from the fashionable street now known as Pall Mall in London's St. James area. The game of pall-mall, which involves hitting a ball with a wooden mallet, was once played there.Listen up, Scrabble players! Zax is a real word that refers to a kind of roofing tool. A small eating place where the food is not particularly good is sometimes called a grab-it-and-growl.A crackerjack fellow is someone who's excellent or first-rate. It's most likely the same positive sense of crack found in terms like cracking good, crack team, and crack shot.The idiom rob Peter to pay Paul, means "to borrow someone from someone in order to repay someone else." In Nicaragua, the same idea is expressed by a phrase that translates as take Juan's clothes to give them to Pedro.Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a game of phrases involving the letter B.Mad money is the emergency cash a woman tucked away to get home safely if an evening out went badly. These days, it's largely been replaced by cell phones.There's a First World and a Third World, but what about a Second World? The Soviet Bloc countries once made up the Second World, but these terms are becoming increasingly irrelevant.In an earlier episode, we played a game in which we raised the ante on words with hidden "numbers" inside them. For example, forever became five-ever. Many listeners wrote to share Victor Borge's hilarious Inflationary Language video along the same lines.The legendary baseball announcer Red Barber is credited with popularizing the term the catbird seat, the enviable position in poker where you're last to bet. James Thurber amusing story "The Catbird Seat" published in The New Yorker helped popularize it even further.Name developer and language observer Nancy Friedman tweeted this curious tracking notice from UPS: "Your package has experienced an exception."What do you say to the person next to you on the swings who's in sync with you? How about, Get out of my bathtub!There's some great stuff out there on the web. Among our current favorites are Stan Carey's blog Sentence First, and The Paris Review, where they're recapping Dante's Inferno.The animal called an aardvark takes its name from an Afrikaans term meaning "earth pig." The word is cognate with the English words earth and pork.Meetup is an increasingly common substitute for meeting, especially when the gathering's meant to be less formal and attendance is optional. About that inflationary language: Writing on our Facebook page, Jen Lynch inflated the word tuba, calling it a threeba.You might want horns, but you're gonna die butt-headed! This expression derives from butt-headed, meaning "without horns," and shows up in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston.This episode was hosted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett.....Support for A Way with Words comes from National University, which invites you to change your future today. More at http://www.nu.edu/.--A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donateGet your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:Email: words@waywordradio.orgPhone: United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673London +44 20 7193 2113Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donateSite: http://waywordradio.org/Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2013, Wayword LLC.