{"id":19580,"date":"2013-02-11T12:41:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T17:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/?p=19580"},"modified":"2013-02-11T12:41:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T17:41:21","slug":"r-i-p-shelby-whitfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2013\/02\/r-i-p-shelby-whitfield\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Shelby Whitfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/obituaries\/shelby-whitfield-former-senators-broadcaster-dies-at-77\/2013\/02\/08\/402c752c-7147-11e2-8b8d-e0b59a1b8e2a_story.html\">Shelby Whitfield, former Senators broadcaster, dies at 77<\/a> &#8211; <em>The Post<\/em><br \/>\nThe alumni of the Washington Senators, on and off the diamond, just got smaller again. <strong>Shelby Whitfield<\/strong>, who broadcasted the Senators with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/tag\/ron-menchine\">Ron Menchine<\/a> on radio and television for the 1969 and 1970 seasons died. Though his tenure in the RFK Stadium press box was brief, Whitfield wrote a book about the end of the Senators at the hands of owner Bob Short called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Kiss-goodbye-Shelby-Whitfield\/dp\/0200040073\">Kiss it Goodbye<\/a>. (Amazon)&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nHe described Short, who died in 1982, as &#8220;an intimidating, domineering person&#8221; who was slow to pay his bills. Short asked announcers to inflate crowd numbers, Mr. Whitfield wrote, and to say the weather was always sunny, &#8220;even if the floodwaters were lapping the sides of RFK Stadium.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The book helped prompt the Federal Communications Commission to launch hearings into the ethics of sports broadcasting. In 1974, the FCC passed a regulation \u2014 since rescinded \u2014 requiring announcers to disclose during games whether they were employees of a team, a league or a broadcasting company.<\/p>\n<p>After leaving the Senators beat, Mr. Whitfield worked for WWDC-AM as the host of &#8220;Sports Roundtable,&#8221; one of Washington\u2019s first radio sports talk shows. Mr. Whitfield later spent seven years as the Washington-based sports director of Associated Press Radio before going to New York in 1981 as sports director of ABC Radio.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have to add that to my reading list.<\/p>\n<p>Whitfield&#8217;s career also included co-authoring a book with Howard Cosell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shelby Whitfield, former Senators broadcaster, dies at 77 &#8211; The Post The alumni of the Washington Senators, on and off the diamond, just got smaller again. 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