One noon in 1923 an inquisitive Irish baritone, waiting for the fall concert season and work, strolled into Manhattan's Station WEAF, began to ask questions. Attracted by his voice, a studio official hired Graham McNamee on the spot. From an announcer-singer, the neophyte soon became the best-known voice of the '20s. Fans first heard the familiar "Take it away, Graham," when he covered the Greb-Wilson title fight in the summer of '23, and the same year McNamee gave his first free translation of a World Series.
No sports expert, he drove the experts wild. He once...
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