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On June 15, 1948, Britt was at the microphone on <a href="/wiki/WBZ-TV" title="WBZ-TV">WBZ-TV</a> for the first live telecast of a Major League game in <a href="/wiki/New_England" title="New England">New England</a>, as the <a href="/wiki/1948_Boston_Braves_season" title="1948 Boston Braves season">Boston Braves</a> defeated the <a href="/wiki/1948_Chicago_Cubs_season" title="1948 Chicago Cubs season">Chicago Cubs</a>, 6–3, at <a href="/wiki/Braves_Field" title="Braves Field">Braves Field</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-JBMB_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JBMB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A native of <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a>, Britt graduated from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Detroit_Mercy" title="University of Detroit Mercy">University of Detroit</a> and began his broadcasting career in <a href="/wiki/Michigan" title="Michigan">Michigan</a> before taking on play-by-play announcing for the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Notre_Dame" title="University of Notre Dame">University of Notre Dame</a>'s <a href="/wiki/American_football" title="American football">football</a> and <a href="/wiki/Basketball" title="Basketball">basketball</a> teams, then the <a href="/wiki/Buffalo_Bisons_(1886%E2%80%931970)" title="Buffalo Bisons (1886–1970)">Buffalo Bisons</a> <a href="/wiki/Minor_league_baseball" class="mw-redirect" title="Minor league baseball">minor league baseball</a> club. He joined the air staff of Boston's <a href="/wiki/WRKO" title="WRKO">WNAC radio</a> in 1939.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Boston_Braves_and_Red_Sox">Boston Braves and Red Sox</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jim_Britt&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Boston Braves and Red Sox"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From 1940 through 1950, with time out for <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a> service in <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-JBMB_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JBMB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Britt was the voice of both the <a href="/wiki/National_League_(baseball)" title="National League (baseball)">National League</a> <a href="/wiki/Boston_Braves_(baseball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston Braves (baseball)">Boston Braves</a> (officially the "Bees" from 1936 to 1940) and the <a href="/wiki/American_League" title="American League">American League</a> <a href="/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox" title="Boston Red Sox">Boston Red Sox</a>, succeeding <a href="/wiki/Baseball_Hall_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="Baseball Hall of Fame">Baseball Hall of Fame</a> <a href="/wiki/Second_baseman" title="Second baseman">second baseman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Manager_(baseball)" title="Manager (baseball)">manager</a> <a href="/wiki/Frankie_Frisch" title="Frankie Frisch">Frankie Frisch</a> as play-by-play broadcaster when Frisch returned to uniform as pilot of the <a href="/wiki/1940_Pittsburgh_Pirates_season" title="1940 Pittsburgh Pirates season">1940</a> <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Pirates" title="Pittsburgh Pirates">Pittsburgh Pirates</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Britt also hosted an evening sports show on WNAC. </p><p>At the time, the Braves and Red Sox each broadcast only their home games and shared announcing teams and flagship stations. Because MLB schedules were then arranged so that the two Boston clubs were never home at the same time, there were no schedule conflicts. As such, Britt was the voice of two pennant-winning clubs, the <a href="/wiki/1946_Boston_Red_Sox_season" title="1946 Boston Red Sox season">1946 Red Sox</a> and the <a href="/wiki/1948_Boston_Braves_season" title="1948 Boston Braves season">1948 Braves</a>. During the latter year, only the Red Sox' defeat at the hands of the <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Indians">Cleveland Indians</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1948_American_League_tie-breaker_game" title="1948 American League tie-breaker game">1948 American League tie-breaker game</a> on October 4 kept Britt from being the play-by-play voice of both league champions. </p><p>At the close of the <a href="/wiki/1950_in_baseball" title="1950 in baseball">1950</a> season, the teams' co-operative radio arrangement ended and each decided to air a full schedule of 154 games, home and away. Britt chose to stay with the Braves, and the Red Sox were left to look for their own lead announcer. </p><p>As fate would have it, the Sox would hire the "second banana" for the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a> — a <a href="/wiki/Mel_Allen" title="Mel Allen">Mel Allen</a> protégé named <a href="/wiki/Curt_Gowdy" title="Curt Gowdy">Curt Gowdy</a> — who would be the voice of the Red Sox for 15 years before moving on to <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC" title="Major League Baseball on NBC">NBC</a>'s <i>Game of the Week</i> and a place in the <a href="/wiki/Baseball_Hall_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="Baseball Hall of Fame">Baseball Hall of Fame</a> as a <a href="/wiki/Ford_C._Frick_Award" title="Ford C. Frick Award">Ford C. Frick Award</a> winner. Meanwhile, the Braves' attendance fell disastrously in <a href="/wiki/1951_Boston_Braves_season" title="1951 Boston Braves season">1951</a> and <a href="/wiki/1952_Boston_Braves_season" title="1952 Boston Braves season">1952</a>, and the club moved to <a href="/wiki/Milwaukee,_Wisconsin" class="mw-redirect" title="Milwaukee, Wisconsin">Milwaukee</a> in <a href="/wiki/1953_Milwaukee_Braves_season" title="1953 Milwaukee Braves season">March 1953</a>, in the middle of <a href="/wiki/Spring_training" title="Spring training">spring training</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cleveland_Indians_and_national_work">Cleveland Indians and national work</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jim_Britt&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Cleveland Indians and national work"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Britt did not accompany the Braves to Wisconsin. Instead, he relocated to Cleveland and joined the TV announcing crew of the Indians in <a href="/wiki/1954_Cleveland_Indians_season" title="1954 Cleveland Indians season">1954</a>, working through <a href="/wiki/1957_Cleveland_Indians_season" title="1957 Cleveland Indians season">1957</a> with <a href="/wiki/Ken_Coleman" title="Ken Coleman">Ken Coleman</a>, a native of the Boston area (and Gowdy's eventual successor, in <a href="/wiki/1966_Boston_Red_Sox_season" title="1966 Boston Red Sox season">1966</a>, as voice of the Red Sox). The highlight of Britt's Cleveland tenure was the Indians' 1954 American League pennant with their league-record 111–43 season (one game better than the 110–44 1927 Yankees). But the Indians were upset in four straight games by the <a href="/wiki/1954_New_York_Giants_(MLB)_season" title="1954 New York Giants (MLB) season">New York Giants</a> in the ensuing <a href="/wiki/1954_World_Series" title="1954 World Series">1954 World Series</a>. </p><p>Nationally, Britt participated in the <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_Mutual" title="Major League Baseball on Mutual">Mutual</a> network radio coverage of the <a href="/wiki/World_Series" title="World Series">World Series</a> in <a href="/wiki/1948_World_Series" title="1948 World Series">1948</a> and <a href="/wiki/1950_World_Series" title="1950 World Series">1950</a>, and worked on <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_on_NBC" title="Major League Baseball on NBC">NBC</a>'s television coverage of the Series in <a href="/wiki/1949_World_Series" title="1949 World Series">1949</a> and <a href="/wiki/1951_World_Series" title="1951 World Series">1951</a>. He also announced several baseball <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="Major League Baseball All-Star Game">All-Star Games</a> in the late 1940s and early '50s, as well as <a href="/wiki/NFL_on_DuMont" title="NFL on DuMont">NFL games</a> on the <a href="/wiki/DuMont_Television_Network" title="DuMont Television Network">DuMont</a> network and <a href="/wiki/College_Football_on_ABC" title="College Football on ABC">college football coverage</a> (including the <a href="/wiki/1953_Sugar_Bowl" title="1953 Sugar Bowl">1953 Sugar Bowl</a> game) on <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Return_to_Boston">Return to Boston</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jim_Britt&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Return to Boston"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Britt returned to Boston in the late 1950s as a newscaster and sportscaster for the city's ABC affiliate, then <a href="/wiki/WHDH-TV_(defunct)" class="mw-redirect" title="WHDH-TV (defunct)">WHDH-TV, Channel 5</a>. The station also was the flagship of the Red Sox' television network, but Britt never regained his former role announcing for the team. Instead, he initiated a popular <a href="/wiki/Candlepin_bowling" title="Candlepin bowling">candlepin bowling</a> show he would host until 1966, and also hosted <i>Dateline: Boston</i> (a nonsports predecessor to many of the modern-day magazine-style television programs) and an ABC-TV network series of hourlong 18-hole matches between two golfers called <i>All-Star Golf</i> featuring the best of their time including Ben Hogan, Sammy Snead, Lloyd Mangrum and Billy Casper. </p><p>In retirement he eventually returned to his native <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, where he died, aged 70, in <a href="/wiki/Monterey,_California" title="Monterey, California">Monterey</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-JBMB_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JBMB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFBloomberg2008" class="citation web cs1">Bloomberg, Mort (2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/jim-britt-2/">"Jim Britt"</a>. <i>sabr.org</i>. <a href="/wiki/Society_for_American_Baseball_Research" title="Society for American Baseball Research">Society for American Baseball Research</a> Biography Project<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">July 27,</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=sabr.org&rft.atitle=Jim+Britt&rft.date=2008&rft.aulast=Bloomberg&rft.aufirst=Mort&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fsabr.org%2Fbioproj%2Fperson%2Fjim-britt-2%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJim+Britt" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Buchanan, William, <i>Sportscaster Jim Britt, 70, found dead in California home,</i> <a href="/wiki/The_Boston_Globe" title="The Boston Globe">The Boston Globe</a>, January 6, 1981; retrieved from archives</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Fitzgerald, Ray, <i>Commentary: A voice from Hub's past is stilled</i>, <a href="/wiki/The_Boston_Globe" title="The Boston Globe">The Boston Globe</a>, January 6, 1981; retrieved from archives</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jim_Britt&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/jim-britt-2">Jim Britt</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Society_for_American_Baseball_Research#Projects_and_collections" title="Society for American Baseball Research">SABR Baseball Biography Project</a> , by Jim Britt, Retrieved Mort Bloomberg.</li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output 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title="The Catch (baseball)">The Catch</a>" (1954)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Larsen%27s_perfect_game" title="Don Larsen's perfect game">Don Larsen's perfect game</a> (1956)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">All-Star Game</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1935_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1935 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1935</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1936_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1936 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1936</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1937_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1937 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1937</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1938_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1938 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1938</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1939_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1939 Major League Baseball 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