This Week in History - Sportscasting Pioneer 'Red' Barber Is Born
The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current) › February 18, 2008
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Walter Lanier "Red" Barber was born to a railroad engineer and a schoolteacher in Columbus, Miss., in 1908. A few facts:
His family moved to Sanford, Fla., in 1918. In 1929, he enrolled at the University of Florida, majoring in education. Barber filled in for a professor who failed to show up for a radio broadcast on the university station, and decided to switch careers. He became station director and chief announcer.See the full content of this document
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This Week in History - Sportscasting Pioneer 'Red' Barber Is Born
He called baseball games for the Cincinnati Reds (1934 to 1938), the Brooklyn Dodgers (1939 to 1953) and the New York Yankee...
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