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Red Barber

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Baseball is only dull to dull minds


— Red Barber


#awesome

He's sitting in the catbird seat.


— Red Barber


#sitting

Running like a bunny with his tail on fire.


— Red Barber


#fire #his #like #running #tail

This is Red Barber speaking. Let me say hello to you all.


— Red Barber


#hello #me #red #say #speaking

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.


— Red Barber


#dull #minds #only

When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.


— Red Barber


#i #imagine #large #large audience #person

Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.


— Red Barber


#close #gets #how #matter #pitch

You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one.


— Red Barber


#dull #else #fully #game #great

When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.


— Red Barber


#baseball #clubhouse #curling #i #into






About Red Barber

Red Barber Quotes




Did you know about Red Barber?

When the professor's absence was discovered minutes before the broadcast was to begin janitor Barber was called in as a substitute. On the Gionfriddo call Barber is describing the action of the outfielder not the ball.

Like his fellow sports pioneer Mel Allen Barber also gained a niche calling college and professional football in his primary market of New York City. Barber nicknamed "The Ol' Redhead" was primarily identified with radio broadcasts of Major League Baseball calling play-by-play across four decades with the Cincinnati Reds (1934–38) Brooklyn Dodgers (1939–1953) and New York Yankees (1954–1966).

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