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Red Barber [1908-1992] American
Rank: 103
Celebrity, Sports commentator


Walter Lanier "Red" Barber was an American sports commentator. Barber, nicknamed "The Ol' Redhead", was primarily identified with radio broadcasts of Major League Baseball, calling play-by-play across four decades with the Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn Dodgers, and New York Yankees.


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Running like a bunny with his tail on fire.
101
This is Red Barber speaking. Let me say hello to you all.
102
You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one.
103
Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
104
When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.
105
Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.
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When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.
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He's sitting in the catbird seat.
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