NASCAR star Kurt Busch announced his retirement on
Saturday. He stepped away from racing after he suffered
a concussion in a crash at Pocono in July 2022.
He announced at Las Vegas Motor Speedway he would
step away from full-time racing last fall.
Robert William Barker (December 12, 1923 – August 26, 2023)
Bob Barker, longtime game show host for "The Price is
Right" has died. He also hosted Truth or Consequences
from 1956 to 1975. He was 99.
On August 26, 1939, the first televised Major League baseball
game was broadcast on station W2XBS, the station that was
to become WNBC-TV. Announcer Red Barber (below) called
the game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn
Dodgers at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York.
