Voices of the Game: The First Full-Scale Overview of Baseball Broadcasting, 1921 to the Present

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Summary: A Must for Every Baseball Fan's Library
Review: How fortunate I was to grow up during the 1950's and be old enough to remember most of these announcers as they painted pictures for us through the medium of radio. Curt Smith does a superb job of bringing these names back to us. Dizzy Dean and Bud Blattner and later Pee Wee Reese, Harry Caray and Jack Buck, Bob Prince, Byrum Saam, Jack Brickhouse, Vin Scully, Ray Scott along with Herb Carneal and Halsey Hall, Earl Gillespie, Ernie Harwell, and, of course, Red Barber and Mel Allen along with many others are chronicled here in this historical book on the voices that brought the National Pastime alive via the medium of radio and later television. If you are not familiar with many of the names listed above, be good to yourself and educate yourself. The many men in this book made it possible for the fan to be able to say like singer Terry Cashman, "I saw it on the radio." I found this book to be a must to include in any baseball fan's library.

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Summary: There aren't enough superlatives to describe this book!
Review: I grew up listening to some of the greatest voices in baseball, Ernie Harwell, George Kell, Harry Caray. To me, the voices who described the games were almost as important as the game itself. They brought the game to life, taught it, and shared the game with us. Finally, from the skilled pen of Curt Smith there is a book that tells us the history of baseball broadcasting, giving us insight into the personalities involved. It's a great book! Every baseball fan should have a copy!