{"id":22837,"date":"2015-01-09T06:14:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T11:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=22837"},"modified":"2026-05-30T10:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T14:00:21","slug":"picture-parade-4-the-red-barber-baseball-box-red-barber-was-the-first-anno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=22837","title":{"rendered":"The Red Barber Baseball Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picture Parade  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/4\">#4<\/a>&#8230;The Red Barber Baseball Box <\/p>\n<p>Red Barber was the first announcer to broadcast baseball on television. He knew a lot about how to help get the best out of a game and developed this box to &#8220;talk&#8221; to the director in the truck. <\/p>\n<p>When he thought play action was going to be in a certain area, or there was some player or position he wanted to talk about, he would flip one of the switches to alert them to have a camera ready. Red&#8217;s position requests were solid red lights. When the truck wanted him to talk about a position or player, they flipped a switch on their board and Red&#8217;s board light there blinked. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/781683668535851\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Picture-Parade-4...The-Red-Barber-Baseball-Box-Red-Barber-was-the-first-anno\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/781690318535186\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture Parade #4&#8230;The Red Barber Baseball Box Red Barber was the first announcer to broadcast baseball on television. He knew a lot about how to help get the best out of a game and developed this box to &#8220;talk&#8221; to the director in the truck. When he thought play action was going to be in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[721,724,703,883],"class_list":["post-22837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-announcer","tag-cast","tag-director","tag-red-barber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81601,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22837\/revisions\/81601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}