Baseball on the Radi

[john250]

I'm enjoying the Baseball on Radio parts of the St. Louis Cardinals thing that Hoss started.
In the 60's, the Reds games were sponsored by Hudepohl beer, and the announcer was Waite Hoyte. You prayed for rain delays, because Waite would start telling story's about the 1927 Yankees and Babe Ruth. If you could believe him, Waite and the Babe shared more than a couple pints.

 

[3waycross]

When i was a kid in Missouri I listened to the A's and the Cards a lot. Still remember sitting up a tree on a Sunday afternoon. with a transister radio drinking an Orange soda pop eating a Bama pie and listening to the A's.

 

[TexasBred]

John almost all sports are much better if you can get them on both tv and radio. Watch the tv and get your sound from the radio. Those guys know how to make it come alive. I can only remember back to when Dizzy Dean and Pee Wee Reece use to announce the games and Dizzy singing and promoting that Falstaff beer. Sometimes I think he much have consumed quite a few during the broadcast. I was always a Dodger fan especially when they were in Brooklyn. Kept up with them a long time then just sort of lost interest in baseball.

 

[dun]

John almost all sports are much better if you can get them on both tv and radio. Watch the tv and get your sound from the radio. Those guys know how to make it come alive. I can only remember back to when Dizzy Dean and Pee Wee Reece use to announce the games and Dizzy singing and promoting that Falstaff beer. Sometimes I think he much have consumed quite a few during the broadcast. I was always a Dodger fan especially when they were in Brooklyn. Kept up with them a long time then just sort of lost interest in baseball.

I used to be a big dodger fan too until they moved. Hated them ever since.

 

[john250]

John almost all sports are much better if you can get them on both tv and radio. Watch the tv and get your sound from the radio. Those guys know how to make it come alive. I can only remember back to when Dizzy Dean and Pee Wee Reece use to announce the games and Dizzy singing and promoting that Falstaff beer. Sometimes I think he much have consumed quite a few during the broadcast. I was always a Dodger fan especially when they were in Brooklyn. Kept up with them a long time then just sort of lost interest in baseball.

Did Diz really say, r.e. a couple caught on camera in the stands, "he's kissing her on the strikes. She's kissing him on the balls." ?

 

[TexasBred]

Did Diz really say, r.e. a couple caught on camera in the stands, "he's kissing her on the strikes. She's kissing him on the balls." ?

hahaha. John I really don't know but it does sound just like something he would say. :lol: :lol:

 

[HOSS]

Baseball on the radio is best at night on an AM station with just a hint of static. Something about that old AM tone. Sitting on the porch listening to the frogs and crickets while the game flows from the radio on a sweet southern night breeze. That my friends is life at it's finest

 

[Dega Moo]

My mother use to listen to Card games on the radio while she'd iron the white t-shirts we'd wear. She'd be involved in the game to the point her own movement was coordinated to the flow of the game - Pitcher peers in for the sign she'd make little circles with the iron - Pitcher comes to set she'd make a couple of bigger circles - He pauses - Mom stops like a bird dog on point! Mom it's smoking again!! Funniest looking white Tee's you ever saw.

 

[TexasBred]

Baseball on the radio is best at night on an AM station with just a hint of static. Something about that old AM tone. Sitting on the porch listening to the frogs and crickets while the game flows from the radio on a sweet southern night breeze. That my friends is life at it's finest

Hoss...use to lay in front of the "big ol' " radio in the living room floor and listen to the "Friday Night Fights". I think they were always from Madison Square Garden and yeah there was always a bit of static and the signal would fade and come back.

 

[HOSS]

I don't go back that far TB :lol: but I grew up in the 1970's in a VERY, VERY rural part of Tennessee. We were nearly 40 miles from the nearest fast food joint and 120 miles from the nearest shopping mall. We only got 3 TV stations when the weather was good. Radio was still king for us. We used to listen to a show out of Chicago on 780 AM called radio Days Gone By hosted by a guy named Chuck Shaden. It was all of the old time radio programs like Jack Benny, Fibber McGee and Molly, The Lone Ranger, The Shadow, The Green Hornet etc. That was some great radio :nod:

 

[john250]

I don't go back that far TB :lol: but I grew up in the 1970's in a VERY, VERY rural part of Tennessee. We were nearly 40 miles from the nearest fast food joint and 120 miles from the nearest shopping mall. We only got 3 TV stations when the weather was good. Radio was still king for us. We used to listen to a show out of Chicago on 780 AM called radio Days Gone By hosted by a guy named Chuck Shaden. It was all of the old time radio programs like Jack Benny, Fibber McGee and Molly, The Lone Ranger, The Shadow, The Green Hornet etc. That was some great radio :nod:

WBBM (780). They still do that old time radio show late at night, about 2am CST.

 

[HOSS]

I don't go back that far TB :lol: but I grew up in the 1970's in a VERY, VERY rural part of Tennessee. We were nearly 40 miles from the nearest fast food joint and 120 miles from the nearest shopping mall. We only got 3 TV stations when the weather was good. Radio was still king for us. We used to listen to a show out of Chicago on 780 AM called radio Days Gone By hosted by a guy named Chuck Shaden. It was all of the old time radio programs like Jack Benny, Fibber McGee and Molly, The Lone Ranger, The Shadow, The Green Hornet etc. That was some great radio :nod:

WBBM (780). They still do that old time radio show late at night, about 2am CST.

That would be the one john. Great stuff.

 

[greybeard]

Weather has to be right, but as recently as earlier this year, I've picked up both WBBM and WLS while on night roadtrips here in Texas. In winter and even in spring, it seems strange to hear the snowfall forecasts coming thru my radio speakers.