![]() The announcers were a rotating group of newspaper writers. Radio broadcasting of sporting events was a new thing in the 1920s. McNamee became well known for his broadcasts of numerous sports events, including several World Series, Rose Bowl games, championship boxing matches, and Indianapolis 500 races. Over the course of the next decade McNamee worked for WEAF, and for the national NBC network, when WEAF became its flagship station. He was given an audition and hired as a staff announcer on the spot.Īlong with fellow WEAF announcer Phillips Carlin, whose voice was so similar that few listeners could tell them apart, McNamee quickly became famous. Someone noticed his voice and asked him to speak through a microphone. In 1922, while serving jury duty in New York City, he visited the studios of radio station WEAF en route to the courthouse and, on a whim, went to audition as a singer. He studied voice as a youth and sang in churches, and in 1922 gave a concert in Aeolian Hall, New York. Paul, Minnesota, McNamee had early aspirations of being an opera singer. McNamee, was an attorney and legal advisor to President Grover Cleveland's cabinet, and his mother, Anne, was a homemaker, who also sang in a church choir. ![]() Frick Award by the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2016. ![]() He originated play-by-play sports broadcasting for which he was awarded the Ford C. Thomas Graham McNamee (J– May 9, 1942) was an American radio broadcaster, the medium's most recognized national personality in its first international decade. ![]()
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