An empty Yankee Stadium and Red Barber’s firing: The conventional belief of the last fifty years isn’t accurate. The incident alone didn’t lead to the broadcast pioneer’s firing. After 67 years behind ...

As the first true career baseball announcer, Red Barber’s folksy voice sprinkled with a touch of Southern gentleman became the signature sound of the game. Thursday marks the 23rd anniversary of ...

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COLUMBUS, Miss. — Red Barber's story began in Columbus, it's true. But the story of Red Barber's story began in a Chicago thrift shop. Barber, the radio broadcaster whose descriptions of Brooklyn ...

It didn’t matter much whether John C. McGinley looked like sportscasting legend Red Barber when he took the role for “42,” opening Friday. Once he found Barber’s voice, McGinley knew he was in the ...

Red Barber had integrity; the pioneer baseball broadcaster would not accept journalistic handcuffs. Red Barber told fans the truth. The Yankees didn't like the truth. Yankees' President Mike Burke ...

John McGinley grew up in New Jersey as a sports fan who "bleeds Yankees blue" and rooted hard for the football Giants, for whom his grandfather, Ed, played tackle in 1925. So when the actor heard ...

The movie 42 was brilliantly done. It captured the racial biases of the day, the unbearable hardships Jackie Robinson endured and the character of the venerable old ballparks. But if he were alive ...