Voices of Summer: Ranking Baseball's 101 All-Time Best Announcers

by Curt Smith

Book Overview

Russ Hodges's frantic pronouncement at Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard 'Round the World": "The Giants win the pennant The Giants win the pennant " and Jack Buck's incredulous remark after Kirk Gibson's heroic home run in the 1988 World Series: "I don't believe what I just saw " are just a couple examples. The sometimes downright hysterical commentaries of broadcasters very often become more memorable than even the games they describe. Though countless...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786714468
• ISBN13: 9780786714469
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Broadcast Beauty

Curt Smith continues to show his love of baseball broadcasters, this time rating the top 101. While this isn't a classic like his previous "Voices of the Game" it is a must for any purist baseball fan. There are several amusing stories, and Smith's rating system does a nice job bringing the Game's current Voices into comparison with the classics like Mel Allen, Red Barber and Bob Prince.

The next "Voices of the Game"

I've waited years for another book like Smith's "Voices of the Game" and this is it! We're already having fights about the rankings but who better to make these pronouncements than Curt Smith, who is indisputably the authority on the subject. It's hard to argue whose in his Top Ten but I know some will, which is the fun of a book like this. When steroids are tarnishing the reputations of the players, it's great to read about the purists of the game. AND, I hear he's got a bio of Mel Allen out next year with scoop on what caused his mysterious departure from the Yankees. I can't wait!