Long before the mega-channel cable/satellite universe, long before we could overdose on baseball games available on local and national packages, mlb.com and XM Satellite Radio, decades before anybody ...

Graham McNamee in NBC studio portrait, 1936. He is mostly forgotten today, but at one time it was said that more people had heard his voice than any other human’s in the history of the world. Graham ...

Mel Allen and Red Barber, the inaugural recipients of the Baseball Hall of Fame’s Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasting in 1978, were children when commercial radio made its debut. So they grew up ...

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One noon in 1923 an inquisitive Irish baritone, waiting for the fall concert season and work, strolled into Manhattan’s Station WEAF, began to ask questions. Attracted by his voice, a studio official ...

50,000,000 people purred contentedly at being thus addressed. Scarred thugs in saloons; bleary night crowds in Porto Rico; hawk-eyed Indians in New Mexican hovels; gentlewomen in staid mansions in ...

Aided by 51 newspapers throughout the land, Cineman Carl Laemmle’s Universal Newsreel daily flashes current events before the eyes of ten million cinemagoers in 10,000 theatres. Last week Newsreeler ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Graham McNamee has won the Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in baseball broadcasting. Baseball's Hall of Fame made the announcement Wednesday at the winter meetings. McNamee is ...