Memories from the Microphone (eBook)

A Century of Baseball Broadcasting

Curt Smith (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
Turner Publishing Company (Verlag)
9781642506761 (ISBN)

Infos

Timed for the centennial of the first game to be broadcast on radio, Memories from the Microphone: A Century of Baseball Broadcasting will celebrate the larger-than-life role that radio and TV announcers have had on our enjoyment of the national pastime.

Inhalt

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Foreword

Prologue: "Present at the Creation” (Introduction: 1921 First Radio Game)

Chapter 1: “The Pioneers” (1920s: Those Who Began the Craft)
Chapter 2: “Both Sides Now” (1930s: To Broadcast or Not)
Chapter 3: “An Accent on Sound” (1940s: The Migration North)
Chapter 4: “That Old Feeling” (Early 1950s: The Wireless Goes Network)
Chapter 5: “Legend In Your Own Time” (1950s: Local Television’s Sunrise)
Chapter 6: “Millennium in the Morn” (1950s-’60s: Network TV’s Debut)
Chapter 7: “Light in the Midnight Door” (1960s-’70s: Shining Booths Amid the Night)
Chapter 8: “I Sing the Songs” (1960s-’80s: Network TV/Radio Blooms)
Chapter 9: “Across the Rubicon” (1970s-’90s: Cable and Company)
Chapter 10: “We Shall Overcome” (1960-Present: Minority Voices)
Chapter 11: “Technology Meets the Sandlot Kid” (2000-Present: New Voices and Devices”)
Chapter 12: “Postlogue: A Sonnet Read Upon the Heart”
Chapter 13: “The Sound of Cooperstown” (Frick Award History)

Bibliography
Index
​About the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.8.2021
• Vorwort: Brooks Robinson
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Schlagworte: 100th anniversary of baseball broadcasting • americas pastimeMel Allen • archives • baseball hall of fame • baseball photography • baseball photos • Calling games • cooperstown collection • ernie harwell • gift for men • Hall of Fame • harry caray • History • history of baseball • joe morgan • pastime • photography • photography history • Photos • pictures from Baseball Hall of Fame archive • pictures of baseball players • Red Barber • sports gift • vin scully
• ISBN-13: 9781642506761 / 9781642506761