Baseball on the radio

[Igor Stravinsky10]

I'm 50 years old. Grew up in the sticks outside of the Cedar Rapids area, so no cable tv. I have fond memories of dialing in 720AM WGN Radio for Cubs games. At night, my Dad (Cardinals fan) would tune in KMOX from St. Louis. I loved staying up late and listening to games with my Dad.

Anyone else have baseball on the radio memories?

 

[sultanofsuede]

I really didn’t enjoy baseball on the radio until I was older and commuting home from work in my 20’s.

I got lucky to enjoy Pat Hughes over the years and appreciate him more and more as the years go on. My two kids and wife know his voice like a road trip family member. He is part of our normal evening activities during baseball season.

I hope he keeps going for a many more years. He’s really the only baseball voice my kids have known, and that’s pretty cool to me.

 

[The Tradition]

Holy hell, radio sports broadcasts are totally dying out.

My grandfather used to have golf on the TV and a radio broadcast of baseball on the radio. He was hard of hearing so the radio was loud enough for the whole neighborhood to hear it.

Good times.

 

[ozzie8]

Silence is golden with baseball on the radio. Love hearing the crowd noise and organ between pitches at Wrigley

 

[Igor Stravinsky10]

I really didn’t enjoy baseball on the radio until I was older and commuting home from work in my 20’s.

I got lucky to enjoy Pat Hughes over the years and appreciate him more and more as the years go on. My two kids and wife know his voice like a road trip family member. He is part of our normal evening activities during baseball season.

I hope he keeps going for a many more years. He’s really the only baseball voice my kids have known, and that’s pretty cool to me.

Awesome!

 

[Ray Kinsella]

Loved, loved, loved listening to Jack Buck and Mike Shannon on KMOX. We had the game on nearly every summer night.

We had so many giants growing up; Scully, Caray, Kalas (Iowa grad), etc.

 

[artradley]

It’s a beautiful day for a ball game.
For a ball game, today.
The fans are off to get a ticket or two
From Wala Wala Washington to Kalamazoo
It’s a beautiful day for a home run
But even a triple’s okay.
We’re gonna cheer, and boo,
And raise a hullabaloo
At the ball game, today.

The Chicago Cubs are on the air!

Good afternoon everyone this is Vince Lloyd along with Lou Boudreaux from the friendly confines of Wrigley Field where today our Chicago Cubs will be taking on the Pittsburgh Pirates…

***

Every day I either listened on the radio or watched the WGN game on TV. This was 60’s and 70’s. There was no cable, but one of the Quad City stations carried WGN’s TV broadcast occasionally.

 

[soonerinlOUisiana]

I'm 50 years old. Grew up in the sticks outside of the Cedar Rapids area, so no cable tv. I have fond memories of dialing in 720AM WGN Radio for Cubs games. At night, my Dad (Cardinals fan) would tune in KMOX from St. Louis. I loved staying up late and listening to games with my Dad.

Anyone else have baseball on the radio memories?

I’ve never been much of a baseball fan but my dad was a huge Reds fan. Grew up in Ohio but spent his adult life in Louisiana (Army, Ft. Polk, wife, and so on). He’d listen to Reds games on an old 5-band portable radio that could catch the Cincinnati station in Louisiana. Sometimes he’d make me stand in the room at a certain spot because it improved reception. If he were alive today, he’d probably commandeer my iPhone to listen to games via internet.

During the Babe Ruth era, my mom’s father and his cronies would “watch” Yankee games via telegraph. Guy on a megaphone would essentially do play by play as it came over the wire. A large plywood diamond with light bulbs would keep track of base runners, strikes, outs, & balls, with a scorekeeper flipping the number cards as they used to do at the ballpark. Probably not all that different from ESPN Gamecast.

 

[General Tso]

Friday evening in the summer.. grill going, beer in hand, twins game on the radio

 

[hydro2.0]

On commutes in the summer I always put on the radio if the Cardinals are playing. Otherwise it’s MLB tv

 

[hawkeye54545]

I rarely missed a Royals game on the radio growing up. Dennys Matthew's, Fred White and producer engineer Don Free.

 

[h-hawk]

Back in the 1960s they still played World Series games during the daytime on weekdays. I wasn't that big of fan (though my Dad was) but many boys including me brought transistor radios to school so they could listen to the games during recess. IIRC it was 1967 when Bob Gibson was starring for the St Louis Cardinals.

 

[PoopandBoogers]

Bob Uecker still called games on the radio up until last year. My brother actually texted me and my other brother with the link one time and I couldn't believe he was still calling games. None of us are remotely close to being Brewers fans, but we all got a kick out of him during his broadcasts. Baseball is great on the radio, especially on warm summer nights, playing in the background on the porch with a cold beer.

 

[SA_Hawk]

Listen to Denny Matthews and the Kansas City Royals on KMA 960 Shenandoah.

 

[10kHawk]

Buck and Shannon on a hot Summer night with a cold beer sitting on the deck, pure heaven

 

[seminoleed]

When the Braves moved to Atlanta, their games were broadcast over WSUN radio out of St. Pete. Up to that point, (and I was just a lad of 13), for no apparent reason I was an Orioles fan. But having been born in Atlanta, I gave the Braves a try, and have been a faithful follower ever since. Milo Hamilton could make a drag bunt sound like shot that was reaching the upper deck, and Ernie Johnson's folksiness was terrific. Every game sounded like it was a sellout, and after I graduated and took a job in Atlanta, that was the first thing I did--go see a Braves a game. When teams I like aren't on TV down here, radio is my go-to; soccer, surprisingly, is very good for radio.

 

[DFSNOLE]

My brother and I shared a room growing up in the 60s in West Palm Beach. We fell asleep almost every night listening to the Braves. I buy the MLB package every year to watch games on TV but often listen to day games on the radio while at work.

 

[zappaa]

Bob Murphy, Lindsey Nelson and Ralph Kiner were part of my family.
Murph: “He slides into 2nd with a stand up double”
Ralph: “It’s gone forget it goodbye”
Lindsey: “way back, way back, and there it goes”

 

[seminoleed]

Bob Murphy, Lindsey Nelson and Ralph Kiner were part of my family.
Murph: “He slides into 2nd with a stand up double”
Ralph: “It’s gone forget it goodbye”
Lindsey: “way back, way back, and there it goes”

Skip Caray with the Braves was also hilarious as a commentator.
My favorites--"We go to the bottom of a fifth" and "The bases are drunk".

 

[DFSNOLE]

Skip Caray with the Braves was also hilarious as a commentator.
My favorites--"We go to the bottom of a fifth" and "The bases are drunk".

The Caray's are radio broadcast Gods. I'm glad we were regularly exposed to their greatness.

 

[NorthernHawkeye]

I'm 50 years old. Grew up in the sticks outside of the Cedar Rapids area, so no cable tv. I have fond memories of dialing in 720AM WGN Radio for Cubs games. At night, my Dad (Cardinals fan) would tune in KMOX from St. Louis. I loved staying up late and listening to games with my Dad.

Anyone else have baseball on the radio memories?

Such great memories of this.

WMAQ 670 out of Chicago. Spent many nights as a child listening to the ChiSox fading in and out.

 

[artradley]

Back in the 1960s they still played World Series games during the daytime on weekdays. I wasn't that big of fan (though my Dad was) but many boys including me brought transistor radios to school so they could listen to the games during recess. IIRC it was 1967 when Bob Gibson was starring for the St Louis Cardinals.

I have exactly the same memories.

 

[Aardvark86]

I'm 50 years old. Grew up in the sticks outside of the Cedar Rapids area, so no cable tv. I have fond memories of dialing in 720AM WGN Radio for Cubs games. At night, my Dad (Cardinals fan) would tune in KMOX from St. Louis. I loved staying up late and listening to games with my Dad.

Anyone else have baseball on the radio memories?

Oh man don’t get me started. Really the best way to enjoy a ball game.

As a kid I was a reds fan and I remember trying to pull in the reds broadcasts late at night while Pete rose had his streak going. And the great Harry Kalas calling Phillies games.

Later, it was o’s games with the goat Jon miller. He could do it all. Had a five minute egg timer he’d use to tell you the current score. Yankee games he’d announce the players as stadium announcer Bob Prince (with the reverb). Vin scully. Vin scully calling an inning in Spanish. Or Japanese!! I stopped rooting for the os when that asshole Angelo’s fired him for not being enough a homer. His greatest work was probably when the o’s started 0-23. Kept you in games pulling for the misery to end.

 

[Obviously Oblivious]

I'm 50 years old. Grew up in the sticks outside of the Cedar Rapids area, so no cable tv. I have fond memories of dialing in 720AM WGN Radio for Cubs games. At night, my Dad (Cardinals fan) would tune in KMOX from St. Louis. I loved staying up late and listening to games with my Dad.

Anyone else have baseball on the radio memories?

Listening to Cubs games on AM 800 KXIC is still one of my simplest of pleasures.

 

[HROT]

You should get MLB.TV app subscription. Able to pull up any radio feed. Or if you like the visuals, you can get the full MLB.TV subscription and watch the games (can even switch to the radio feed for audio).