Walter Lanier "Red" Barber was a pioneer in sports broadcasting on both radio and television. In 1934 Barber was hired by Larry MacPhail of the Cincinnati Reds to be their first play-by-play announcer. He was also a pioneer in college and...

Walter Lanier "Red" Barber (February 17, 1908, Columbus, Mississippi – October 22, 1992) was an American sportscaster. Barber, nicknamed "The Ol' Redhead", was primarily identified with radio broadcasts of Major League Baseball, calling play-by-play...

When my older brothers began taking me to Brooklyn Dodgers games in the early 1950s - mother's rule was, one goes, all go - I hadn't yet figured out, at age 12 or so, who the greats of the game were. That meant the...

Red Barber, who died at age 84 yesterday from pneumonia and kidney failure at his home in Tallahassee, Fla., introduced journalism to baseball broadcasting 58 years ago. Barber's major league debut was with the Cincinnati Reds in 1934, but his lasting fame was...

Every 10 years, we find more reasons to remember Jackie Robinson. In 1987, Dodgers general manager Al Campanis told Ted Koppel on Nightline that even 40 years after Robinson broke the color barrier, blacks still “may not have some of the necessities” to become sports...

More than 50 years after etching his name in baseball's record books, Don Larsen finally got to see himself do it.Along with a crowd of about 100 people Friday night that included former teammate Yogi Berra, the pitcher who owns the only perfect game in...