Author biography graham mcnamee

Thomas Graham McNamee July 10, — May 9, was an American radio broadcaster , the medium's most recognized national personality in its first international decade.

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Frick Award by the Baseball Hall of Fame in Graham McNamee's father, John B. 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. Born in Washington, D. Paul, Minnesota , McNamee had early aspirations of being an opera singer. He studied voice as a youth and sang in churches, and in gave a concert in Aeolian Hall, New York.

In , 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 was given an audition after which he was hired on the spot as a staff announcer. McNamee became well known for his broadcasts of numerous major sports events, including several World Series , Rose Bowl games, championship boxing matches, and Indianapolis races.

Radio broadcasting of sporting events was an entirely new thing in the s. The announcers were a rotating group of newspaper writers.