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Michnay and O’Hara Martin; and nine grandchildren.63
Martin was posthumously inducted into the West Virginia Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2010 64 and the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2011.65
Sources
In addition to the sources referenced in the text, the author was assisted by Ned Martin’s le at the Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, New York.
Notes
1 Joe Fitzgerald, “Martin Dances Down Memory Lane,” Boston Herald, June 19, 1990, 72.
2 Gordon Edes and Chris Snow, “Sox Broadcaster Martin, 78, Dead,” Boston Globe, July 24, 2002; D1.
3 Dave Weekley, “Martin Always Knew He Would Make It to the Majors,” Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette, July 29, 2002, 3B.
4 Edes and Snow, “Sox Broadcaster Martin.”
5 Jack Craig, “No Replacing ‘ e Natural’ of Sox Radio,” Boston
Globe, October 9, 1992.
6 Craig, “No Replacing”; Robert D. Spurrier, “ e Voices of the
Red Sox,” Bennington (Vermont) Banner, July 18, 1975.
7 Martin’s widow, Barbara Martin, phone interview with the
author, July 13, 2014.
8 Joe Fitzgerald, “Ned Martin Captured Moments and Made
em Into Memories,” Boston Herald, July 21, 2003, 10.
9 Joe Fitzgerald, “Ned’s Patriotism Will Never Flag,” Boston
Herald, December 6, 1991, 98.
10 Ibid.
11 Curt Smith, Mercy! A Celebration of Fenway Park’s Centennial
Told rough Red Sox Radio and TV (Washington, D.C.: Potomac, 2012), 71-72.
12 Ibid..
13 Craig; Curt Smith, Voices of the Game: e First Full-Scale Overview of Baseball Broadcasting, 1921to the Present (South Bend, Indiana: Diamond Communications, 1987), 382.
14 Smith, Voices of the Game, 382.
15 Bob Wol , Bob Wol ’s Complete Guide to Sportscasting: How to Make It in Sportscasting With or Without Talent. [Google Book preview] (New York: Skyhorse Pub, 2011).
16 Smith, Voices of the game, 382.
17 Bill Parrillo, “No Pizzazz, Just Professionalism by Ned Martin,” Providence Journal, December 20, 1987, D-1. Some accounts have Tarkenton throwing a no-hitter in that game.
18 Martin’s widow, Barbara Martin, phone interview with the author, July 13, 2014.
19 Weekley, “Martin Always Knew.”
20 Chip Ainsworth, “ e Voice of the Red Sox: e Advocate Talks
to the Fast Talker,” Hartford Advocate, May 24, 1978, 24.
21 Smith, Voices of the Game, 382.
22 Parrillo, “No Pizzazz.”
23 Smith, Mercy! 72.
24 Ainswoth, “ e Voice of the Red Sox.”
25 Weekley, “Martin Always Knew.”
26 “Ned Martin Joins Hub Team of Radio, Video Broadcasters,” e Sporting News, December 28, 1960.
27 “A Good Job: You’re Fired!” Sunday Gazette-Mail, Charleston, WestVirginia, November 27, 1960, 10A.
28 Jim Baker, “Tribute to Ted; Martin Rich in Storied Williams Lore,” Boston Herald, July 23, 2002, 72.
29 Jack Craig, “Every Step of the Way Ned Martin Followed Yaz From Minors to World Series,” Boston Globe, January 13, 1989.
30 Smith,Mercy!,74.
31 Weekley, “Martin Always Knew.”
32 Smith, Mercy!,,75.
33 “No-Hit Hurler Parnell Joins Gowdy, Martin on Air Team,” e Sporting News, January 23, 1965.
34 Smith, Mercy!, 82.
35 Craig, “Every Step of the Way.”
36 Je Goldberg, “Martin, Voice of Sox, Dies; Legendary Red Sox Broadcaster Collapses at Airport,” Hartford Courant, July 24, 2002; C1
37 Rich ompson and Tony Massarotti, “Broadcaster Martin Dead,” Boston Herald, July 24, 2002, 102.
38 Smith, Voices of the game, 395.
39 Smith, Mercy!, 8.
40 redsoxdiehard.com/players/broadcasters.html.
41 Smith, Mercy!, 20.
42 Smith, Mercy!, 110.
43 Peter Gammons, “Average Sox pay: $145, 692,” Boston Globe, February 14, 1980.
44 Bob Monahan, “Jim Woods, Radio Broadcaster for Red Sox From 1974-1978; At 71,” Boston Globe, February 22, 1988.
45 Smith, Voices of the Game, 405.
46 “Sox, WHDH End Longest Association,” Berkshire Eagle,
Pitts eld, Massachusetts, September 20, 1975, 22. 47 Ibid.
48 Spurrier, “ e Voices of the Red Sox.”