"A compelling portrait of a sportscaster endowed with a rare breadth of social and psychological understanding."
—Booklist, starred review
"Red Barber is one of the greatest and most influential baseball broadcasters ever to occupy the 'catbird seat,' as the 'Ol' Redhead' called it. From Jackie Robinson's debut to Bobby Thomson's Shot Heard 'Round the World. From Brooklyn's beloved 'Bums' to the Mantle/Maris Yankees, to mentoring a young Vin Scully, Barber's life and career are an important part of baseball history and the history of the craft he mastered. This complete and carefully researched biography is both merited and most welcome."—Bob Costas
"Red Barber was the lilting voice of the Reds, the Dodgers, the Yankees, and National Public Radio. But more than that, he was the conscience of baseball, a man who believed in the power of broadcast for the good of the game and its listeners. Red was perched in the catbird seat while big-league baseball grew in ways he could barely have imagined; he grew with it, as an announcer and as an American. With Red Barber: The Life and Legacy of a Broadcasting Legend, the authors have given this complicated, important figure the biography he deserves."—John Thorn, official historian, Major League Baseball
