** Red Barber, American sportscaster ( b. 1908 )

Columbus is also the birthplace of baseball announcer Red Barber ; boxing's first three-time world heavyweight champion, Henry Armstrong ; rock singer Andrew Wood ; the parents of Grammy-award winning bluegrass musician Alison Krauss ; American Idol contestant Jasmine Murray ; and bluegrass musician Ruby Jane Smith.

In October, the network began a two-decade long run as broadcaster of baseball's World Series, with airtime responsibilities shared between WGN's Bob Elson and Quin Ryan and WLW's Red Barber ( NBC and CBS also carried the series that year ; the Fall Classic would air on all three networks through 1938 and exclusively on Mutual through 1955 ).

These films, which include Maria Marten or Murder in the Red Barn ( 1935 ), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ( 1936 ) and Tom Taylor's The Ticket-of-Leave Man are a unique record of a bygone art-form.

However, Caray never pretended to be the kind of objective announcer that such broadcasters as Red Barber and Vin Scully prided themselves on being regardless of their team attachments.

* Red Barber ( 1980 – 1992 ; won a Peabody Award in 1990 for his Friday-morning conversations with Edwards )

He got his old members of Danny Polo, Gerry Mulligan, and Barry Galbraith back together, but also added new members like Red Rodney, Lee Konitz, Joe Shulman and Bill Barber.

His weekly call-in chats with retired sportscaster Red Barber are fondly remembered.

Barber died in 1992, and the following year Edwards based his first book, Fridays with Red: A Radio Friendship ( ISBN 0-671-87013-0 ), on the weekly interviews.

( Harwell was brought to Brooklyn to substitute for regular Dodger announcer Red Barber, who was hospitalized with a bleeding ulcer.

( He was succeeded as CBS Radio's sports director by Red Barber.

In 1984, Husing was part of the American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame ’ s inaugural class which included sportscasting legends Red Barber, Don Dunphy, Graham McNamee and Bill Stern.

" is adopted from Howard Cosell, while another of his famous calls, " Back-back-back-back " comes from Red Barber.

# Symphony in D for the Dodgers ( 1941 ; a WOR radio commission, with narrator “ Red ” Barber in the final movement )

In a July 6,, interview with Red Barber, Durocher had been commenting on the common belief at the time that if a team's players got along well, they would naturally play better than teams with difficult or irascible players ; noting some of the players on the Giants who had reputations as personable individuals, notably Mel Ott, he observed that they were all " nice guys ", but would nonetheless finish last ( while his Dodgers were in first place ), summing up his argument with, " Nice guys ; finish last.

Dodgers ' voice Red Barber, however, thought more of Hoyt's abilities and hired him as color commentator and host of the pre-and post-game shows in.

Scully was then recruited by Red Barber, the sports director of the CBS Radio Network, for its college football coverage.

Like Red Barber and Mel Allen in the 1940s, Scully retained his credentials in football even as his baseball career blossomed.

From 1957 to 1960, he served in the U. S. Air Force where he was introduced to the Yankees broadcaster Red Barber.

Red Barber was the play-by-play broadcaster.

Walter Lanier " Red " Barber ( February 17, 1908 – October 22, 1992 ) was an American sportscaster.

#: Consisting of the following songs: " The King Crimson Barber Shop ", " 21st Century Schizoid Man ", " Ladies Of The Road ", " Red ", " Starless ",

* Red Barber ( 1908 – 1992 ), American sports broadcaster

Red Barber, the Dodgers radio announcer made the call.

Following the formation of baseball's first professional organization, the National Association of Professional Baseball Players, which became known as the National Association, the Association, or NA, in 1871, Spalding joined the Boston Red Stockings ( precursor club to the modern Atlanta Braves ) and was highly successful ; winning 206 games ( and losing only 53 ) as a pitcher and batting. 323 as a hitter.

" Sedona Red " became the dominant color scheme used throughout Chase Field and in all marketing and promotional materials for the Diamondback ballclub.

The now all professional Chicago White Stockings, financed by businessman William Hulbert, became a charter member of the league along with the Red Stockings, who had dissolved and moved to Boston.

Corinna Vinschen became co-lead since early 2004 when Faylor left Red Hat.

After losing the first three games of the series against the Sharks, the Red Wings won three consecutive games to force a Game 7, becoming just the eighth team in NHL history to accomplish the feat ( the Chicago Blackhawks became the seventh team to do so earlier in the 2011 Stanley Cup Playoffs, against the Vancouver Canucks ).

The Red Wings have not used any alternate logos or uniforms since the trend became popular in the 1990s, the sole exceptions were select games of the 1991 – 92 season commemorating the league's 75th Anniversary, and for a commemorative game in 1994 at Chicago Stadium.

* After the 2005 season, the Red Sox completed their plans for the. 406 Club area, which became the EMC Club.

That same year " The Red Strokes " became Brooks's first single to make the pop top 40 in the UK, reaching a high of No. 13 ; it was followed by " Standing Outside The Fire ", which reached No. 23.

These extended southwards along the Red Sea coast and penetrating the Arabian bifacial cultures, which became progressively more Neolithic and pastoral, and extending north and eastwards, to lay the foundations for the tent-dwelling Martu and Akkadian peoples of Mesopotamia.

John MacLean emerged as a key political figure in what became known as Red Clydeside, and in January 1919, the British Government, fearful of a revolutionary uprising, deployed tanks and soldiers in central Glasgow.

The " Red ", or left-wing conspiracy faction, which promoted peasant enfranchisement and cooperated with Russian revolutionaries, became involved in immediate preparations for a national uprising.

In 1538 Tripoli was reconquered by a pirate king called Khair ad-Din ( known more evocatively as Barbarossa, or Red Beard ) and the coast became renowned as the Barbary Coast.

The air war on the Western Front received the most attention in the annals of military aviation, since it produced aces such as Manfred von Richthofen, popularly known as the Red Baron, Ernst Udet, Hermann Göring, Oswald Boelcke, Werner Voss, and Max Immelmann ( the first airman to win the Pour le Mérite, Imperial Germany's highest decoration for gallantry, as a result of which the decoration became popularly known as the Blue Max ).

Within a day, it became clear that the German army was capable of conducting offensive operations and that Red Army detachments, which were relatively small, poorly organized and poorly led, were no match for it.

Nevertheless, the circumstances of the Red vs. White Russian Civil War, and terrorism by the opposing political parties, and in aid of the White Armies ' counter-revolution, led to the Bolshevik government banning other parties ; thus, the vanguard party became the sole, legal political party in Russia.

In turn, Maoism became the theoretical basis of some third world revolutionary vanguard parties, e. g., the Communist Party of Peru – Red Fatherland, the Communist Party of Cuba, the Sandinista National Liberation Front, et al.

As graffiti / street art became more main stream in the late 1990s, youth oriented brands such as Nike, Red Bull and Wieden Kennedy have turned to graffiti / street artists to decorate walls of their respective offices.

Manitoba became a province of Canada in 1870 after the Red River Rebellion.

In 1938, Kalashnikov was conscripted into the Red Army, and became a tank driver and mechanic, achieving the rank of senior sergeant tank commander serving on the T-34s of the 24th Tank Regiment, 12th Tank Division stationed in Stryi before the regiment retreated after the Battle of Brody in June 1941.

At the same time, Davis recruited the players for a formation that became known as his " first great quintet ": John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Philly Joe Jones on drums.

The Allied resolution on the " orderly transfer " of German population became the legitimation of the expulsion of Germans from the certain parts of Central Europe, if they had not already fled from the advancing Red Army.

Historian John Erickson dates 1 February 1924, when Mikhail Frunze became head of the Red Army Staff, as the ascent of the General Staff, which dominated Soviet military planning and operations.

In that time, the osobist ( NKVD military counter-intelligence officer ) became a key Red Army figure with the power to condemn to death and to spare the life of any soldier and ( most any ) officer of the unit to which he was attached.

The General Staff Academy was reinstated on 2 April 1936, and became the principal military school for the senior and supreme commanders of the Red Army.

The Red Army Faction existed from 1970 to 1998, committing numerous operations, especially in late 1977, which led to a national crisis that became known as " German Autumn ".