Curt Smith and I go way back, relatively speaking. My first interview with him came in 2012 when he published Mercy!: A Celebration of Fenway Park’s Centennial Told Through Red Sox Radio and TV
In The Presidents and the Pastime: The History of Baseball and the White House
Other baseball titles in the Smith oeuvre include:
- The Voice: Mel Allen’s Untold Story
- The Storytellers: From Mel Allen to Bob Costas : Sixty Years of Baseball Tales from the Broadcast Booth
- Voices of the Game: The Acclaimed Chronicle of Baseball Radio and Television Broadcasting from 1921 to the Present
- Storied Stadiums: Baseball’s History Through Its Ballparks
- What Baseball Means to Me : A Celebration of Our National Pastime
, on which he served as editor.
- Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story
- A Talk in the Park: Nine Decades of Baseball Tales from the Broadcast Booth
An aside: As with most of the people I’ve had the pleasure to talk to for this blog, we had never met. That was rectified at the 2018 SABR Convention in New York City, where I was also able to chat with Claire Smith. Sadly, such opportunities are few and far between and not within sight as this year’s gathering in Baltimore has been postponed.
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