Curt Smith

Memories from the Microphone (eBook, ePUB)

A Century of Baseball Broadcasting

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Voices of the Game

Curt Smith is ...the voice of authority on baseball broadcasting. USA Today

#1 New Release in Photography, Baseball Statistics, Photo Essays, and Photojournalism

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 gamefrom Mel Allen to Harry Caray, Vin Scully to Joe Morgan, Ernie Harwell to Red Barber.

Also discover:

• Images from the Baseball Hall of Fame's matchless archive
• Anecdotes and quotes from Curt Smith's original research
• Interviews with broadcast greats
• Little-known stories, such as Ronald Reagan calling games for WHO Des Moines in the 1930s
• Accounts of diversity in baseball broadcasting, including the TV coverage of Joe Morgan and earlier Hispanic pioneers Buck Canel and Rafael (Felo) Ramirez
• A special section devoted to the Ford C. Frick Award and inductees since its inception in 1978

Also take a nostalgic trip down baseball's memory lane with other Baseball Hall of Fame books: Picturing America's Pastime, So You Think You Know Baseball, and Baseball Memories and Dreams.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mango Media
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781642506761
• Artikelnr.: 62148633

Autorenporträt

Curt Smith is a prolific author and baseball's leading radio/television historian who wrote more speeches than anyone for former President George H.W. Bush. The New York Times terming his work the high point of Bush familial eloquence. USA Today calls him the voice of authority on baseball broadcasting. To Chicago Cubs announcer Pat Hughes, Smith is simply one of the best baseball historians, ever. Memories From the Mike: A Century of Baseball Broadcasting is his eighteenth book.

In 1998, Smith joined the University of Rochester faculty as Senior Lecturer of English. He teaches Public Speaking using video, text, and lecture, and Presidential Rhetoric, etching how U.S. presidents from Calvin Coolidge to Joe Biden communicated through language and delivery. He is also a Gannett News Service columnist, analyzing politics, culture, and sport through what pollster John Zogby calls his mastery of language.

Smith began his career as a 1970s Gannett reporter, 1980-82 The Saturday Evening Post Senior editor, and 1983-89 speechwriter for several Cabinet members of the Reagan Presidency. He was a 1989-93 White House speechwriter for President George H.W. Bush, addresses including the Just War Persian Gulf speech; address on the USS Arizona Memorial site on Pearl Harbor's fiftieth anniversary that Senator John McCain termed moving ... thick with emotion; and later Bush's 2004 emotional eulogy to Ronald Reagan.

In 1992, Smith released the updated version of Voices of The Game, the history of baseball radio/TV that Publisher's Weekly called monumental. It became a Smithsonian Institution series that The Washington Post styled a mesmerizing memory lane and then highly-rated three-part 1994-95 ESPN TV series. Since then, Smith has hosted other Smithsonian, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, XM Satellite Radio, and a decade-long National Public Radio Upstate New York series Perspectives, named by Associated Press Best in New York State.

Smith's most recent book is The Presidents and the Pastime. Others include Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story; George H.W. Bush; A Talk in the Park; What Baseball Means to Me; Windows on the White House; and Mercy!, a tribute to Fenway Park. He has contributed to the Cambridge Companion to Baseball, the National Museum of American Jewish History's Chasing Dreams, and more than a dozen volumes of the Society of American Baseball Researchand addressed, among others, the White House Historical Association, Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, and Great Fenway Writers Series.

Smith has written about baseball or politics for, among other publications, American Enterprise Magazine, The Boston Globe, Newsweek, The New York Times, Reader's Digest, Sports Illustrated, The Sporting News, and The Washington Post. He has appeared on network radio/TV programs including ABC's Nightline, Armed Forces Radio, BBC, CBS This Morning, CNBC, CNN, ESPN, Fox News Channel, History Channel, MSNBC, Mutual Radio's Jim Bohannon and Larry King, and Radio America.

Born and raised in Upstate New York, the State University of New York at Geneseo graduate was elected in 1993 to the Judson Welliver Society of former White House speechwriters. Smith is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame's Ford C. Frick Award broadcast committee and the National Radio Hall of Fame steering committee. He lives with his wife Sarah and two children in Upstate New York.

Inhaltsangabe

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
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