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- AILING. Walter ("Red") Barber, 84, pioneering baseball
- broadcaster and radio personality; from an intestinal blockage,
- in Tallahassee, Florida. Barber, who called play-by-play for the
- Brooklyn Dodgers from 1939 to '53 and the Yankees from 1953 to
- '66, was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1978. He
- popularized the phrase "in the catbird seat," to describe a team
- sitting on a big lead.
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