Read Voices of Summer: Ranking Baseball's 101 All-Time Best Announcers Online
Authors: Curt Smith
Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint excerpts
from the following.
FDR: A Centenary Remembrance, by Joseph Alsop, copyright the Viking
Press, 1982. Reprinted by permission ofThames and Hudson Limited.
North Toward Home, by Willie Morris, reprinted by permission of
Houghton Mifflin, 1967.
Rhubarb in the Catbird Seat, by Red Barber with Robert Creamer,
reprinted by permission of Doubleday and Company, 1968.
Sports Illustrated, reprinted by permission the issues of April 15, 1957;
April 13, 1959; April H, 1960; and April 10, 1961.
The Gas House Gang, by J. Roy Stockton, reprinted by permission of A.S.
Barnes and Company, 1945.
When It Was a Game, reprinted by permission of Home Box Office, 1991.
Grateful acknowledgment is also made to: ABC Television, CBS Radio,
Fleetwood Recording Co., Major League Baseball and its thirty teams,
Mutual Radio, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, and NBC Radio
and Television.
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You Can't Beat the Hours, with Ed Fitzgerald. New York: Harper and Row, 1965.
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Barber, Walter (Red), The Broadcasters. New York: Dial Press, 1970.
Rhubarb In the Catbird Seat, with Robert Creamer. Garden City, NewYork: Doubleday, 1968.
Buck, Jack, That's a Winner!, with Bob Rains and Bob Broeg. Champaign, Illinois: Sagamore Publishing, 1997.
Castiglione, Joe, Broadcast Rites and Sites, with Douglas B. Lyons. Lanham, Maryland: Taylor Trade
Publishing, 2004.
Costas, Bob, Fair Ball: A Fan's CaseJor Baseball. New York: Random House, 2000.
Gowdy, Curt, Cowboy at the Mike, with Al Hirshberg. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1966.
Greenwald, Hank, This Copyrighted Broadcast. San Francisco: Woodford Press, 1997.
Halberstam, David, Summer of''49. New York: William Morrow, 1989.
Harmon, Merle, Merle Harmon Stories, with Sam Blair. Arlington, Texas: Reid Publishing, 1998.
Harris, Jay S., TV Guide: The First 25 Years. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978.
Hodges, Russ, Baseball Complete. New York: Grosset and Dunlop, 1952.
My Giants. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1963.
Kahn, Roger, The Boys of Summer. NewYork: Harper and Row, 1971.
Keegan, Tom, Ernie Harwell. Chicago: Triumph Books, 2002.
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Powers, Ron, SuperTube. New York: Coward-McCann, 1980.
Stockton, J. Roy, The Gas House Gang. New York: AS. Barnes and Company, 1945.
Thompson, Chuck, Ain't the Beer Cold! with Gordon Beard. South Bend, Indiana: Diamond Communications, 1996.
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