Walter Lanier "Red" Barber Papers and Book Collection 1925-1992

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Walter Lanier "Red" Barber Papers and Book Collection 1925-1992

http://www.library.ufl.edu/spec/manuscript/guides/barber.htm

Scrapbooks, correspondence, photographs documenting the life of Red Barber and the history of sports and broadcasting.

19.5 Linear feet; 47 boxes

eng,

Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

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Barber, Red, 1908-

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Walter Lanier "Red" Barber is a legend in the field of sports broadcasting. He began his career sixty-one years ago while studying English education at the University of Florida. In his junior year, while filling in for a reporter on the University's radio station WRUF, Barber realized that broadcasting was the profession he would pursue. He left school in 1930 to accept a full-time job announcing for WRUF where he worked for four years. In 1934, when the Cincinnati Reds decided to ...