Voices of the Game: The Acclaimed Chronicle of Baseball Radio and Television Broadcasting from 1921 to the Present Review

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(More customer reviews)Curt Smith's history of baseball broadcasting, from the early days of radio in the 1920s to the present is a must read for those who have always been fascinated by the men who have broadcast the games over the years and want to know just why baseball has sadly declined in importance on the networks over the decades. It is shocking to see how in the 1950s, there were more than 100 regular season baseball games each year on all three networks, while today we barely see a quarter of that amount.
The only thing wrong with Smith's book that keeps it from five stars are his annoying digressions into his personal opinions of certain broadcasters. As a Yankee fan who grew up in the late 1970s, I particularly take offense to his rude dismissal of Frank Messer, who broadcast more Yankee games than anyone other than Mel Allen or Phil Rizzuto as well as his total glossing over of Bill White, also a Yankee broadcaster at the time and the first black to broadcast regularly for a team. Jon Miller and Harry Caray, two announcers I dislike are overhyped as though they were gods while Gary Thorne, a solid professional for more than a decade on ESPN and the New York Mets is also treated rudely. Smith would have been well-advised to stick to the history and keep his opinions on announcers he doesn't care for to himself.

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