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Accompanying note: "Baseball Hall of Fame broadcaster Walter Lanier 'Red' Barber, photographed at his home in Tallahassee's Waverly Hills neighborhood shortly before his death in 1992. Barber was a native of Sanford, attended the University of Florida, became famous as the broadcaster of the Brooklyn Dodgers and lived his last 20 years in Tallahassee with his wife, Lylah."

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Born in Columbus, Mississippi in 1908, he began his broadcasting career in 1930, while a student at University of Florida, with the university's WRUF. He later married his nurse (Lylah Murray Scarborough) after a 1931 accident. He broadcast his first major league game in 1934 at Cincinnati. He broadcast the major league's first world series in 1935. He then moved to the Dodgers in 1939 and broadcast the major league's first televised game. Later he switched to the Yankees in 1954 and stayed through the 1966 season when he was fired. He wrote a weekly column for the Miami Herald and a monthly column for the Christian Science Monitor, and six books. He moved to Tallahassee in 1972 where he began writing a weekly column for the Tallahassee Democrat and weekly broadcasts on National Public Radio with Bob Edwards in 1981. He died in 1992. Red Barber was posthumously inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1995.