Can ‘experts’ predict final MLB standings better than the average fan?
It turns out the only insider knowledge you’ll need is a copy of last year’s standings.
It turns out the only insider knowledge you’ll need is a copy of last year’s standings.
As the talking heads line up to predict this season’s division winners, many are hoping fans will forget their abysmal forecasts for the 2015 season.
The first World Series radio broadcasts were a far cry from today’s pricey television productions.
With owners deeply divided over radio, a 20-year tug-of-war would ensue.
Legendary broadcaster Red Barber took a chance on Scully when he asked him to be an announcer for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Three years later, Scully was the voice of the World Series.
Radio legend Graham McNamee was baseball’s first broadcast star. So why did it take 74 years for the National Baseball Hall of Fame to honor him?
Just five days before the first pitch of the 1947 World Series, a deal was struck to air the Series on television.
Paul Laurence Dunbar became the first Black writer to earn international acclaim through his poetry, essays and musical lyrics.
In a sermon two weeks after MLK’s funeral, civil rights leader, Wyatt Tee Walker, urged young seminarians to be hopeful and take action for making change happen. His sermon has valuable lessons today.
A recent gift by billionaire Robert Smith to pay off the student loans of 2019 graduates of Morehouse points to the potential of America’s black elite to pay off all black students’ college loans.
James Walker has authored or co-authored six books: "Red Barber: The Life and Legacy of a Broadcasting Legend," 2022, University of Nebraska Press. "Crack of the Bat: A History of Baseball on the Radio…