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Red Barber
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Red Barber was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1995.
First recipient (with Mel Allen)of the Ford C. Frick Award (presented to a broadcaster for major contributions to baseball) in 1978.
He was a baseball announcer for 33 years with the Cincinatti Reds (1934-1938), Brooklyn Dodgers (1939-1953) and New York Yankees (1954-1966).
Inducted into the American Sportscasters Hall of Fame in 1984 (inaugural class, along with
Don Dunphy
,
Ted Husing
,
Graham McNamee
, and
Bill Stern
.
Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 3, 1991-1993, pp. 41-42. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001.
Ranked #3 by the American Sportscasters Association in its list of the Top 50 Sportscasters of All-Time (January 2009).
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