Baseball is radio's game

[fred flintstone]

Seattle Times:

Marty Brennaman, longtime voice of the Cincinnati Reds, has a new fan in Bath, England. The far-flung fellow, who e-mails Brennaman periodically, has recently discovered the joys of baseball on the radio, a sport he scarcely understood but became entranced with over the airwaves.

Such is the 21st-century power of satellite and Internet broadcasts, which merely reinforce what became evident shortly after 26-year-old Harold Arlin executed the first baseball broadcast on Aug. 5, 1921, at Forbes Field on Pittsburgh's KDKA, using a converted telephone as a microphone.

Baseball is radio's game. Radio is baseball's medium.
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For all the article describes the classic baseball announcers, what it leaves out that today's crop of ex-jocks suck! They don't know the difference between doing play by play for radio and for TV. They think their job is to blab on and show how smart they are, how many baseball people they and how many things in baseball they have seen - like sitting next to Cliff Claven at a ballgame.

 

[SaltyDog]

For all the article describes the classic baseball announcers, what it leaves out that today's crop of ex-jocks suck!

They aren't all ex-jocks though. Cleveland's Tom Hamilton rocks!