Don Dunphy, would become boxing’s most prominent announcer. Dunphy was still a kid on September 14, 1923. listening to ...

It’s been said that Jerry Izenberg, the legendary sports columnist, has always been on the right side of history. It ...

JERRY IZENBERG’S NEW BOOK, LARRY DOBY IN BLACK AND WHITE: THE STORY OF A BASEBALL PIONEER. IT IS SET FOR NATIONAL RELEASE ON TUESDAY! Fred Sternburg, a distinguished sports public relations executive, ...

An original member of the Miami Heat in 1988, Tony Fiorentino was a handful of […] ...

You’d think that the NBA would have a respectable representation of Black announcers, particularly play-by-play. The league’s players are close to 80% Black or fully White. A few years ago, the league ...

Welcome to the second in a three-part series on a new book celebrating Hispanic baseball radio/television, Béisbol on the Air: Essays on Major League Spanish-Language Broadcasters (McFarland). Today: ...

If you were raised in Upstate New York in the 1950s and early ‘60s, as I was, you could not escape the ubiquity of the New York Yankees. From Albany to Buffalo, the public daily turned to their ...

Curt Smith keeps pumping out wonderful historical tidbits broadcast and MLB tidbits. The great writer Jerry Izenberg once observed, “For generations … the Hispanic voice of the World Series [a record ...

The Yankees Airwaves Voices – Starting in 1970 Bob Gamere did play-by-play for Holy Cross […] ...

When my career was heavily involved in broadcast sales, I attended a couple of annual meetings hosted by Chevrolet, a lead sponsor of Major League Baseball. Representing KMOX in St. Louis was Jack ...

John Sterling’s immediate heir as the radio voice of the New York Yankees might just be local boy Justin Shackil, whose early rounds have been shaky at best. On the day of the announcement, Shackil ...

On June 17, 1994, just about 30 years ago, it seemed like the whole world […] ...