Say It Ain’t So, Joe
Joe Nuxhall won’t be on the Ford C. Frick Award ballot again. The Hall of Fame says Nux wasn’t among the top three fan favorites in voting on Facebook throughout September. Here’s a link to our story....
View ArticleTim McCarver Wins Ford Frick Award
Fox TV analyst Tim McCarver has been named the 2012 recipient of the Ford Frick Award for baseball broadcasting excellence by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. The former catcher for the...
View ArticleTwas The Video Before Christmas
Wanted you to see this cool local ” ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas” video featuring Marty Brennaman, Bootsy & Patti Collins, Bengals Rey Maualuga and Thomas Howard, Si Leis, Buddy LaRosa, Police...
View ArticleWaite Hoyt returns to airwaves Sunday
Wanted to make sure you saw my Sports section column today: “It’s Burger Baseball time! With Waite Hoyt!” The voice of longtime Reds radio announcer Waite Hoyt returns to the airwaves at 8 p.m....
View ArticleReds TV-Radio photos: Marty, Joe, Cowboy, Al Michaels, Waite Hoyt, etc
Wow! What a collection of Reds TV/radio announcers. We just posted a new photo gallery of Reds TV-radio announcers through the years. You’ll see your favorites, and some you’ve forgot. Here’s a link...
View ArticleJoe Morgan v. Charlie Sheen on Leno
Joe Morgan took time off from his Monroe Honda dealership Monday night for a surprise appearance on Jay Leno’s “Tonight Show.” Leno brought out the Hall of Fame second baseman to challenge actor...
View ArticleServices Saturday for Joe Nuxhall’s brother
This doesn’t have anything to do with TV/radio, but I’m a Nuxhall fan… and I wanted you to know that Joe wasn’t the only athlete in the family signed by a National League team. Brother Don Nuxhall, who...
View ArticleRemembering Ted Kluszewski, 1924-1988
For 25 years, we’ve been without a Klu. Reds’ 1950s slugger Ted Kluszewski died on March 29, 1988. He was only 63. Not only was he a fan favorite for crushing the ball out of Crosley Field — 279 HRs...
View ArticleJoe Nuxhall’s other Major League Baseball record
Everyone knows Joe Nuxhall set a baseball record in 1944 as the youngest player, making his Reds debut at 15. Not many know about his other Major League Baseball record set 49 years ago today – when...
View ArticleWhen baseball almost banned Marty and Joe
Before Pete Rose was banned from baseball, the commissioner threatened the same permanent punishment for Reds radio announcers Marty Brennaman and Joe Nuxhall 25 years ago this week. Marty & Joe?...
View ArticlePoll: Who’s No.1 national sportscaster from Cincinnati?
Who is the top national sportscaster from Cincinnati? Who has made the biggest impact on the national broadcasting landscape that worked, played or lived in Cincinnati? We’re giving you 10 choices on...
View ArticleVideo: Marty thinks of Nux ‘all the time’
Marty Brennaman says he think of longtime Reds radio partner Joe Nuxhall “all the time.” Marty talked to me about his special relationshkp with Nux, who died in 2007, before the Knights of Columbus’...
View ArticleWhen Marty met Joe 40 years ago
Forty years ago this week, young Marty Brennaman met Joe Nuxhall for the first time when they posed for Reds Radio publicity photographs on Feb. 1, 1974. “Joe and I were together 31 years, the longest...
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