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File Size: 4038 KB
Print Length: 420 pages
Publisher: Da Capo Press; 1st edition (March 25, 2009)
Publication Date: March 25, 2009
Sold by: Hachette Book Group
Language: English
ASIN: B001NEIODM
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Curt Smith, Baseball's broadcast historian, has done it again! He has given a detailed top 100 list that is bound to spur arguments among diehard fans. For instance, why does Smith list Phil Rizzuto and Bill White but not that classy professional Frank Messer who so ably rounded out the Yankeee triumvirate for sixteens and was the best of emcees at Stadium OldTimers Games? Why is there continued mention of Lou Boudreau as a longtime Cubs commentator but nothing in depth about his playing, managing and broadcast career? Credit should be given Smith in detailing why Jim Woods was consistently the best number-two man in various broadcast teams and should be considered for Cooperstown. Smith also notes the contributions of two able non-listers, former Yankee radio men Michael Kay and Charley Steiner, in the piece about their ex-partner John Sterling. Kay now does Yankee TV, and Long Island native Steiner was included in "Ghosts of Flatbush," HBO's documentary about the Brooklyn Dodgers. Thumbs up to Curt Smith, amd that comes without any internal argument!
If you liked listening to baseball on radio and who the play by play people were, this is a great book
Ex lb book Mr Smith is a Mr Bush supporter guess he's next client is john Ellis bush
Hard to keep up with it ..Curt is very hard to keep up with If you don't know the teams and the Announcers from that era makes it a difficult read but I'm glad he wrote it ,Thanks
Needed this book for a book report and it was a great find to be able to purchase online... got an A on the report!
Curt Smith knows a lot about the history of baseball broadcasting, but the pity of it is that he has no idea of how to translate that knowledge into a great book. "Voices Of The Game" written in 1987 and revised in 1992 was undermined by his very bad, disjointed writing style, and compounded by his annoying intrusion of his subjective personal opinions about the merits or lack thereof in certain baseball broadcasters. I have never forgiven Smith for his obnoxious dismissal of the work of Yankees broadcaster Frank Messer (1968-1985) in a single phrase calling him "dull as a greasepocked pan", and his refusal to understand that for Yankee fans of that era, it wasn't Phil Rizzuto or Rizzuto and Bill White, it was Rizzuto, MESSER and White who made listening to Yankee baseball in the 70s and early 80s great. Messer might not have been Smith's cup of tea as a broadcaster, but his career at least merited some acknowledgment if this was to be a truly objective chronicle of baseball broadcasting because there were plenty of people out there who wouldn't share Smith's view on that point (just as I am a person who absolutely despises Jon Miller's broadcasting, an announcer Smith will never hesitate to gush endlessly about, but I would never let my feelings prevent me from acknowledging the following that Miller does have with others).I mention these prefatory remarks to note that in this new book, Smith's writing has become more shallow and his focus even more so. Now we are getting profiles of 101 great announcers, in profiles that are mostly verbatim rehashes of what we saw in "Voices Of The Game" only more disjointed and even less coherent. To his credit, Smith has evidently made peace with some of the announcers whose work he ripped in the past like Gary Thorne of the Mets, Monte Moore of Oakland etc. and I even applaud the fact that he's willing to acknowledge that John Sterling has a following among Yankee fans despite the shrill blastings he gets from New York media critics. But I'm sorry, you can not include Phil Rizzuto and Bill White on this list and leave Messer out (And include Hawk Harrelson for God's sake?????). A more competent baseball writer, Bruce Markusen, has noted how Messer's low-key approach of competent professionalism was the perfect tonic in the Yankee booth to the witty exchanges of Rizzuto and White. Nine innings of Rizzuto and White would have been overkill, but with Messer in the mix, the blend was perfect. Yankee broadcasting went into a tailspin after Messer was dismissed in 1985 and it took seven years for them to land on their feet with the arrival of the John Sterling-Michael Kay tandem.Smith also is not someone who aggressively does his homework on baseball's broadcasting past, but seems content to just recycle his 20 year old notes, because in addition to rehashing almost verbatim comments from his 20 year old book, he's amazingly still repeating a goof from "Voices Of The Game" that should have been corrected long ago. On page 230, in his profile of Giants broadcaster Lon Simmons, Smith quotes verbatim the famous NBC Radio call of Willie McCovey's liner to Bobby Richardson ending Game 7 of the 1962 World Series. The only problem though, is that call was made by George Kell, not Simmons (Simmons, contrary to the profile listing, was never part of the NBC Radio crew for the 62 WS. All of the games were called by Kell and Joe Garagiola).Someone else needs to rescue the history of baseball broadcasting from what Curt Smith has done and write a better book (something similar to David Halberstam's 1999 "Sports On New York Radio"). It will be a pity if our long-term reference works on baseball broadcasting will have to consist of Smith's badly written subjective opinions that muddle up so much of the meaningful information there is for us to learn about.
This is a poorly writen book and it is such a shame, because for baseball fans the topic is so interesting.The author writes in a bizarre style that is extremely difficult to read. The writing is very clipped, and as such, quite painful to read. He likes to show off his knowledge of obscure words which does nothing to communicate his points. He ticks off little known facts, but does little in the way of explaining why they are relevant.Reading this book in a normal manner was impossible. I found that skimming through it was the only way I could keep my sanity. I had to restrain my desire to take out the blue pencil and begin editing his work.At one point I checked to see who published this book. It was a very obscure publishing house, certainly no one will ever confuse them with Random House. Still, how this monstrosity ever found its way into print is a mystery.There are many great baseball books that have been written over the years, Boys of Summer, Lucky to be a Yankee, etc. This book is clearly not one of them -- not even close. Reading this book was more effort than it was ever worth. Don't waste your time.
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