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Voices of the Game: The First Full-Scale Overview of Baseball Broadcasing, 1921 to the Present: The First Full-Scale Overview of Baseball Broadcasing, 1921 to the Present | 
 enlarge | Author: Curt Smith
Publisher: Diamond Communications
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1036832
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 608
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 7.5 x 1.8
ISBN: 0912083212
Dewey Decimal Number: 070.4497960973
EAN: 9780912083216
ASIN: 0912083212
Publication Date: June 28, 1987
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Condition: As pictured with dust jacket and mylar cover in very good condition except has library marks and stickers. Free delivery confirmation number.
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 It's a classic May 14, 2008
I am hard pressed to give an example of a sentence from this book that is not so laden with irrelevance that a moment's thought will not entirely dissolve its meaning. I give you the first, as a warning: "We had been here, the ribbon of reminiscences reminded me, many times before." And sentence after sentence, the author just doesn't quit, writing that is. And if you are like me, you will wish he had. Unless, of course, you hate baseball and everything to do with it, or you are a collector of the worst samples of writing in the english language. It's like when you were a kid with a nickel and you wanted to buy some candy, but every time you reached out to take a jaw breaker the guy behind the counter whacked you with a yard stick.
 A Must for Every Baseball Fan's Library March 13, 2000
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
There aren't enough superlatives to describe this book! April 9, 1999
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
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!
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