Interview with Mr. Walter L. (Red) Barber : pioneer sports broadcaster and long time "Voice of the Brooklyn Dodgers" / interviewer: Orley B. Caudill. c1974.

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Interview with Mr. Walter L. (Red) Barber : pioneer sports broadcaster and long time "Voice of the Brooklyn Dodgers" / interviewer: Orley B. Caudill. c1974.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20282626

xvii, 89 leaves ; 28 cm.

University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus, Joseph Anderson Cook Library

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University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus, Joseph Anderson Cook Library

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Caudill, Orley B.

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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 ...