Jimmy Dudley was know for his voice; Tom Hamilton has that unending command

To celebrate the 2025 season, we continue Curt Smith’s series, Voices of Summer, on baseball’s […]


Byrun Saam: Fans worshiped and toured Phillies, started in1935; Voice: Kallas, Musser and Campbell;

Headline: Byrum Saam, Master of the Malapropism To celebrate the 2025 season, we continue Curt […]


Arch McDonald, baseball voices like, Mel Allen and Garnett Marks; Meanwhile, Red Barber with the Dodgers!

To celebrate the new baseball year, we continue Curt Smith’s series, Voices of Summer, on […]


Looking at grouping of announcers; Gary Thorne, Norm Hitzges, Dick Vitale, Doris Burke and Joe Bowen

By 1976, Gary Thorne graduated from the University of Maine and Georgetown Law School, paying […]


Waite Hoyt: The Sole Major League Mic Man to Speak Almost Solely in Past Tense

To celebrate the new year, we continue Curt Smith’s series, Voices of Summer, on baseball’s […]


Bob Elson owned Chicago; For many years he called White Sox Baseball; Loved Gambling too!

To celebrate the 2025 season, we continue Curt Smith’s series, Voices of Summer, on baseball’s […]


France Laux, the St. Louis Cardinals’ famed Depression-era, Gas House Gang Voice

To celebrate the 2025 season, we continue Curt Smith’s series, Voices of Summer, on baseball’s […]


The popular New England sportscaster, Fred Hoey was beloved; Entertained many; He died in 1949

To celebrate the 2025 season, we continue Curt Smith’s series, Voices of Summer, on baseball’s […]


Pat Flanagan was one of the early “Voices of Summer” during the regular seasons in Chicago

By CURT SMITH To celebrate the 2025 season, we continue Curt Smith’s series, Voices of […]


Graham McNamee was as big as they are; Boxing, Baseball, College and Pro Football

by Curt Smith Early 1920s America worshiped the celebrity of the self-made man. Like the […]


Red Sox’ Joe Castiglione richly merits this week’s Ford Frick Award

On Saturday, July 20, the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown will present […]


Historian Curt Smith Assesses John Sterling after 36 years on Yankees radio; He’s one of a kind!

If you were raised in Upstate New York in the 1950s and early ‘60s, […]