# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/red-barber
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:07:48.656Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/red-barber"
name: "Red Barber"
slug: "red-barber"
description: "Walter Lanier \"Red\" Barber was an American sports announcer and author. Nicknamed \"The Ol' Redhead\", he was primarily identified with broadcasts of Major League Baseball, calling play-by-play across four decades with the Cincinnati Reds (1934–1938), Brooklyn Dodgers (1939–1953), and New York Yankees (1954–1966). Like his fellow sportscasting pioneer Mel Allen, Barber also developed a niche calling college and professional American football in his primary market of New York City."
tagline: "American radio broadcaster, television broadcaster, sportscaster (1908-1992)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_sports_broadcaster_Red_Barber_DG01150.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1908-02-17"
deathDate: "1992-10-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.43
  momentum:             4.120171673819742
  historical:           5.151698666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Barber"
    title: "Red Barber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "ريد باربير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Barber"
    title: "Red Barber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a6f32cdd-7bf2-42a0-9b3f-ff2264aa872c"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Barber"
    title: "Red Barber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Barber"
    title: "Red Barber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3422661"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump