Calling the Game: Baseball Broadcasting from 1920 to the Present

by Stuart Shea

Calling the Game: Baseball Broadcasting from 1920 to the Present is an exhaustive, meticulously researched history of bringing the national pastime out of the ballparks and into living rooms via the airwaves.

Every play-by-play announcer, color commentator, and ex-ballplayer who has presented a Major League Baseball game to the public is included here. So is every broadcast deal, radio station, and TV network. In addition to chapters for each...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933599405
• ISBN13: 9781933599403
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Society for American Baseball Research
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"