Zounds of music. (Here Below).ONE OF THESE CENTURIES something wonderful is going to happen in sports broadcasting. Some "suit" with a smidgeon of taste is going to take over a network and begin doing something about all the awful thundering that accompanies sports shows. Why do we have to be blasted out of our socks every time a sports show comes on the air? Why do we need a cacophony of 76 trumpets, 76 fifes, and, naturally, 76 trombones? Why is there no bill of rights for the protection of eardrums from all that Boom! Boom! Boom! From John Madden, we'll accept an occasional Boom! From the rest of the networks, never. Can anything be done to sound-proof that Sousa psyche in sports shows? Absolutely. It wasn't that way in the day of radio. We were around when radio introduced the first golden voice of sport. Graham McNamee. He never worked with trumpets and trombones, but he enunciated perfectly. True, he didn't have many clues about sport, but he made up for it by yelling enthusiastically on bases on balls and drop-kicks. Remember, his listeners couldn't see anything. They had to depend upon the announcer to tell them what was happening. Graham may have been a little weak on the fundamentals, but he did a great cracker. Good things began happening when TV came along. You could now see with your own eyes what the announcers were trying to tell you. In time, the bright, informed young pros began showing up and suddenly we had Ted Husing Edward Britt (Ted) Husing (November 27, 1901 - August 10, 1962) was an American sportscaster and was among the first to lay the groundwork for the structure and pace of modern sports reporting on television and radio. , Bill Stern Bill Stern (July 1, 1907 - November 19, 1971) was a U.S. actor and sportscaster who announced the nation's first remote sports broadcast and the first telecast of a Major League Baseball game. , Red Barber Walter Lanier "Red" Barber (February 17, 1908, Columbus, Mississippi – October 22, 1992) was an American sportscaster. Barber, nicknamed "The Ol' Redhead", was primarily identified with radio broadcasts of Major League Baseball, calling play-by-play across four , Curt Gowdy Curtis Edward Gowdy (July 31 1919 – February 20 2006) was an American sportscaster, well-known as the longtime "voice" of the Boston Red Sox and for his coverage of many nationally-televised sporting events, primarily for NBC Sports in the 1960s and 1970s. , Jack Buck John Francis "Jack" Buck (August 21, 1924 – June 18, 2002) was an American sportscaster, best known for his work announcing Major League Baseball games of the St. Louis Cardinals. Buck received the Ford C. , and then the fabulous teams: John Madden and Pat Summerall (pro football), Keith Jackson and Bob Griese (college football), great major league baseball "MLB" and "Major Leagues" redirect here. For other uses, see MLB (disambiguation) and Major Leagues (disambiguation). Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball. teams such as Red Barber and Connie Desmond, Jon Miller and Joe Morgan, and Ralph Kiner and Tim McCarver, terrific play-by-play announcers like Mary Albert and Vince Scully; genuinely funny guys like Joe Garagiola, whose long years in baseball prepared him for his triumphful career with the Westminster Dog Show (he always knew a dog when he saw one). And wilderness became paradise enow e·now adj. & adv. Archaic Enough. [Middle English, variant of enogh; see enough.] . Without the 76 trombones. RELATED ARTICLE: THE VERY AM-HUSING TED The first great radio sportscaster, getting up in the middle of Franklin Field, Philadelphia to do a Penn Relays about 60 years ago. He was dashing arrogant funny very knowledgeable, and had a great voice, better than anyone who came before him, and maybe after him! |
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