Since radio's debut in the 1920s and television's in the '30s, the
baseball announcer has become entertainer, observer, and extended
member of the family. In "A Talk in the Park: Nine Decades of
Baseball Tales from the Broadcast Booth", many of the pastime's
most popular and famous announcers-the Voices-tell their favourite
stories in their own distinctive words. It is riveting oral
history. Herein is the largest total of active and retired
broadcasters featured in any sports book: 116. Its radio and TV
tales include every major-league team and such networks as ESPN,
Fox, TBS, and the new MLB channel, and capture the Voices
commenting on ballparks, managers, the characters of the game,
umpires, special teams, interleague play, improvements to the
game-and on one another, including the beloved Ernie Harwell, who
died in 2010 and to whom the book is dedicated. Here are Bob Wolff,
airing the longest-ever wild pitch, Howie Rose, using the 1969 Mets
to pass a high school exam, and Charley Steiner, telling why George
Steinbrenner"hired" Jason Giambi. Denny Matthews recalls George
Scott's faux uniform number 6-4-3. Ken Harrelson defends his
one-handed catch: "With bad hands like mine, one hand was better
than two." Eduardo Ortega announces for his mother, who is deaf.
Pat Hughes remembers when Harry Caray called a game with a tea bag
dangling from his ear. Voices hail Lou Piniella: dressed,
undressed, volatile, and loveable. Columnist Christine Brennan says
of author Curt Smith:"No one knows baseball broadcasters as well as
he does." In particular, "A Talk in the Park" addresses trends of
the past two decades-the rise of Hispanic and other minority
announcers, interleague play, ex-jocks' warp-speed climb, whiz-bang
technology, 24/7 coverage, and the evolution of broadcasting, from
radio to network television to cable. Told by baseball's leading
broadcast historian, endorsed by the National Baseball Hall of Fame
and the National Radio Hall of Fame, and starring announcers who
reach millions, A Talk in the Park brilliantly relates what
baseball was, is, and is likely to become.
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