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Family Theatre. June 10, 1953."Another Catcher In The Family". Sustaining. An aging Major League catcher is asked to train his own replacement...and then the young player marries the older catcher's daughter! Frank Fay (host), Pat O'Brien, Betty Lynn, Ken Christy, Harry Zimmerman (composer, conductor), Tony La Frano (announcer), Eddie Firestone, Jack Mitchell (writer), Joseph Mansfield (director), Leo Cleary, Bill Baukum.

A new man in town organizes the local kids into a baseball team and becomes a hero. The baseball coach has a hidden past. John Lund (host), Guy Madison, Colleen Townsend, Wade Miller (writer), Max Terr (composer, conductor), David Young (director), Eddie Firestone, Peter Rankin, Norman Field, Merrill Ross (announcer), Fred Howard, Sam Edwards, Dick Ryan.

The manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates calls on heavenly messengers to get his slumping team out of the cellar. Janet Leigh, George Murphy, Donna Corcoran, Irving Cummings (host), Ken Carpenter (announcer), Rudy Schrager (music director), Joseph Kearns, Dan Riss, Shepard Menken, Helen Kleeb, Lawrence Dobkin, Herb Ellis, Steve Dunne, Yvonne Peattie, Fred MacKaye, William Johnstone, Herb Butterfield, Edward Marr, Tony Barrett, Robert Griffin, Eddie Firestone, Herbert Rawlinson, Ralph Montgomery, George Wells (screenwriter), Dorothy Kingsley (screenwriter), Earl Ebi (director), Sanford Barnett (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects).

Bob Friend and Warren Spahn were both nursing a 5-0 shutout until the sixth inning when Spahn was rocked by the frist three batters he faced: Nellie Fox, who hit a single, Ted Willams, who hit a home run, and Mickey Mantle, who followed with another home run

Baseball Historian presents Red Barber&Bob Edwards talking about baseball on the "Morning Edition" Part 2

Photo: Red Barber&NPR's Bob Edwards at their only face to face meeting. Location, Flordia State University 1991

Baseball Historian presents Red Barber&Bob Edwards talking about baseball on the "Morning Edition"

Photo: Red Barber&NPR's Bob Edwards at their only face to face meeting. Location, Flordia State University 1991

A native of Columbus, Mississippi, Walter Lanier "Red" Barber was born February 17, 1908. He launched his colorful and distinguished broad casting career in Cincinnati in 1934. Barber was highly regarded by his peers and his broadcasts were noted for their fairness and accuracy. He was best known by his nickname "Red." Barber followed McPhail to Brooklyn, where he pioneered baseball on radio in New York. He became known as the "Voice of the Brooklyn Dodgers." Barber was at his microphone on August 26, 1939 when the first major league baseball game was telecast from Ebbets Field. The game was a doubleheader between the Dodgers and the Reds. He was with the Dodgers when Jackie Robinson came to Brooklyn in 1947 and he had a major role in shaping the baseball world�¢ï¿½ï¿½s reaction to Robinson�¢ï¿½ï¿½s breaking the color barrier in major league baseball.

Red Barber left the Dodgers in 1953 and took a job with the rival New York Yankees. He remained there until 1966. The "old Redhead" as he was affectionately known, compiled an impressive record, covering 13 World Series and other major sports broadcasts. His career as a broadcaster lasted 38 years.

The Lux Radio Theatre. October 4, 1943 "The Pride Of The Yankees"Story about the baseball career of Lou Gehrig. Gary Cooper, Virginia Bruce, Edgar Buchanan, Cecil B. DeMille, Boyd Davis, Charles Seel (doubles), Edward Marr (doubles), Edna Johnson, Elsa Janssen, Eugene Forsythe (doubles), Griff Barnett, Joe Pennario, Ken Christy (doubles), Leo Cleary (doubles), Norman Field (doubles), Robert Harris (doubles), Stanley Farrar (doubles, commercial spokesman), Verna Felton (doubles), Hugh Kloss (doubles), Bobby Larson, Florence Shirley (doubles), Fred MacKaye (doubles, commercial spokesman), Charlotte Treadway, Dick Ryan (doubles), Bob Haynes (commercial spokesman), Ann Tobin (commercial spokesman), Doris Singleton (commercial spokesman: as "Libby"), Jo Swerling (screenwriter), Herman J. Mankiewicz (screenwriter), Paul Gallico (author), Sanford Barnett (director), George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects)

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