Tag: Major League Baseball
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Jottings From My Notebook. Good & Bad, About Baseball Telecasts and Announcers During […]
Broadcasters’ use of inside sports lingo, is a disservice to viewers and sponsors; Phrases can be annoying
In its Sept. 5 DealBook newsletter, the New York Times reported, “As of today, […]
Ken Levine: Active Hollywood script writer and ex-MLB voice, critical of Fox’ ASG voices and more
Thank you MLB and Fox for utterly destroying the Major League Baseball All-Star game. […]
Calvin Coolidge; Born July 4th; Jumping baseball’s 1924 bandwagon helped 30th president win reelection
American Presidents, like great French restaurants,” said the writer and educator S. Douglass Cater, […]
The Curt Smith Series, The Presidents and the Pastime: Wilson’s lifetime love for baseball
OUR PRESIDENTS, OURSELVES “American Presidents, like great French restaurants,” said the writer and educator S. […]
ESPN’s popular Boog Sciambi: “To sound like a baseball voice of 50 years ago doesn’t work today”
When ESPN’s Jon Sicambi embarked upon his career in the early 90s, local sports-talk radio […]
Jessica Mendoza: Earning respect of the old baseball guard by hard work, focus and determination
UPDATE: In February, 2020, it was announced that Mendoza would not return to ESPN’s Sunday […]
Baseball Broadcast Historian Curt Smith Previews his New Book, ‘The Presidents and the Pastime’
Curt Smith’s knowledge of presidential history is deeper than dead center field in the old […]
Baseball Broadcast Historian Curt Smith ranks top 5 all-time Play-by-Play announcers
Curt Smith, a former White House speechwriter for the first President Bush, George Herbert Walker, […]
Historian Curt Smith examines why the World Series TV ratings have dropped badly since 1988
By Curt Smith 10/29/2018 1
On September 30, 1989, NBC telecast its last of more than a thousand […]