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| Red Barber at his home - Tallahassee, Florida | |
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Tallahassee Democrat (Firm) |
| Title |
Red Barber at his home - Tallahassee, Florida |
| Description |
Born in Columbus, Mississippi in 1908, he began his broadcasting career in 1930, while a student at University of Florida, with the university's WRUF. He later married his nurse (Lylah Murray Scarborough) after a 1931 accident. He broadcast his first major league game in 1934 at Cincinnati. He broadcast the major league's first world series in 1935. He then moved to the Dodgers in 1939 and broadcast the major league's first televised game. Later he switched to the Yankees in 1954 and stayed through the 1966 season when he was fired. He wrote a weekly column for the Miami Herald and a monthly column for the Christian Science Monitor, and six books. He moved to Tallahassee in 1972 where he began writing a weekly column for the Tallahassee Democrat and weekly broadcasts on National Public Radio with Bob Edwards in 1981. He died in 1992. |
| Date | 198-? |
| Medium | 1 photonegative - col. - 35 mm. |
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N046344 |
| Source | https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/154276 |
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This work is from the Florida Memory Project hosted at the State Archive of Florida, and is released to the public domain in the United States under the terms of Section 257.35(6), Florida Statutes. Note: In accordance with the provisions of Section 257.35(6), Florida Statutes, "Any use or reproduction of material deposited with the Florida Photographic Collection shall be allowed pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1)(b) and subsection (4), provided that appropriate credit for its use is given." |
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| current | 23:18, 18 December 2018 | | 600 × 414 (39 KB) | Slowking4 (talk | contribs) | {{photograph |title = Red Barber at his home - Tallahassee, Florida |accession number = N046344 |date = 198-? |Description= Born in Columbus, Mississippi in 1908, he began his broadcasting career in 1930, while a student at University of Florida, with the university's WRUF. He later married his nurse (Lylah Murray Scarborough) after a 1931 accident. He broadcast his first major league game in 1934 at Cincinnati. He broadcast the major league's first world series in 1935. He then moved to th... |
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