Even Though Television Is Everything In Sports, There Once Was Marty Brennaman

Posted Oct 5, 2019
The Marty Party spent Thursday rocking the airways, along with everywhere else, from Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati to the farthest corner of Reds country to the soul of the baseball universe to those who just are into radio, sentimentality or all of the above. Marty Brennaman, the voice of the Cincinnati Reds for 46 of his 77 years, just retired. (Forbes)

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