Red Barber
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Red Barber
(born Feb. 17, 1908, Columbus, Miss., U.S.died Oct. 22, 1992, Tallahassee, Fla.) U.S. sports broadcaster. He became the radio and television announcer for the baseball games of the Cincinnati Reds (193439), Brooklyn Dodgers (193953), and New York Yankees (195466). He combined technical expertise with homespun comments; his signature exclamation was Oh-ho, Doctor! He provided weekly commentary on National Public Radio from 1981 and wrote two books on baseball and an autobiography.
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"When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person."
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