the University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications to a student studying sports broadcasting. A WRUF microphone used by Barber during the 1930s is part of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum's collection. It has been displayed in the museum's "Scribes and Mikemen" exhibit, and from 2002 to 2006 it was featured as part of the "Baseball as America" traveling exhibition. In popular culture Barber is mentioned in "The Catbird Seat", a 1942 short story by James Thurber. A female character in the story likes to use the titular expression as well as such phrases as "tearing up the pea patch" and "hollering down the rain barrel", prompting another character to suggest that she picked them up from listening to Barber's Dodger radio broadcasts. (Ironically enough, according to Barber's daughter, her father did not begin using the "catbird seat" phrase until after he had read the story.) In 1957, Barber appeared as himself in "Hillbilly Whiz", a third-season episode of The Phil Silvers Show. In the 2013 film 42, which dramatizes Jackie Robinson breaking the major leagues' color barrier with the Dodgers, Barber is played by John C. McGinley. In the 2015 television series Manhattan (Series 1, Episode 11), a character asks another if they have "been watching Red Barber" after the latter's foreign accent has improved to sound more American, suggesting that is where she learned to improve it. Books by Red Barber See also List of University of Florida honorary degree recipients References Further reading External links Red Barber Ford C. Frick Award biography at the National Baseball Hall of Fame Red Barber at the Radio Hall of Fame Baseball Memories: The Red Barber Centennial - NPR Morning Edition Feb. 15, 2008 Fan essay on Red Barber Red Barber Collection at University of Florida's George A. Smathers Libraries Red Barber Radio Scholarship 1908 births 1992 deaths 20th-century American Episcopalians 20th-century American non-fiction writers American radio sports announcers American television sports announcers Brooklyn Dodgers announcers Cincinnati Reds announcers College football announcers Florida Gators football announcers Ford C. Frick Award recipients George Polk Award recipients Major League Baseball broadcasters National Football League announcers New York Giants announcers New York Yankees announcers Peabody Award winners People from Columbus, Mississippi Seminole High School (Seminole County, Florida) alumni University of Florida College of Education alumni