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This day in baseball: Red Barber hired

Posted: April 5, 2020 | Author: | Filed under: 20th Century, This day in baseball | Tags: , , , , , , , |Leave a comment

On April 5, 1934, Cincinnati Reds president Larry MacPhail hired Red Barber to broadcast the team games on WLW radio.  Nicknamed “Ol’ Redhead,” due to the color of his hair, Barber spent the first five years of his Hall of Fame career in Cincinnati before moving to the Dodgers alongside MacPhail in 1939.

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