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Great TV Baseball Play by play

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My favs being from Boston:
1) 10/28/04 Joe Buck "back to Foulke Red Sox fans have long to hear it"
2) 10/21/75 Dick Stockton. " there it goes, if it stays fair, Home Run"
3)10/88 Vin Scully " she is gone"
4) 10/91 Jack Buck' 10/12 Joe Buck "we'll see you tomorrow night"
 
I'd have to say that anytime Vin Scully, Bob Costas, or
Al Michaels is working a game, you'll get great play-by-play;
Curt Gowdy is no longer with us, but the same goes for him.
All are (or were) pros in every sense of the word.

Would anybody add Russ Hodges' almost-hysterical "The Giants
win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!" when they took
two out of three from the Dodgers in a playoff for the 1951 National
League title? Although the game was televised, television coverage
was still so limited that I suppose most people heard it on the radio.

I do miss the came-out-of-radio voices like Mel Allen, Red Barber,
Harry Caray, Jack Buck, and Ernie Harwell, who made it fun to listen
to or watch a game. I'm most familiar with Caray, who sometimes got
so off-topic that Steve Stone would have to get him refocused on the
game, but no matter. I don't think I've watched a Cubs game since
Caray passed away.
 
bpatrick said:
I'd have to say that anytime Vin Scully, Bob Costas, or
Al Michaels is working a game, you'll get great play-by-play;
Curt Gowdy is no longer with us, but the same goes for him.
All are (or were) pros in every sense of the word.
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Vin was especially so on Game 5 of that 1985 NLCS. It was entertaining through and through, down to Ozzie Smith's famous walk-off homer, and Vin and Joe handled it expertly in every way imaginable.
 
bpatrick said:
Would anybody add Russ Hodges' almost-hysterical "The Giants
win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!" when they took
two out of three from the Dodgers in a playoff for the 1951 National
League title? Although the game was televised, television coverage
was still so limited that I suppose most people heard it on the radio.
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Hodges' broadcast was heard only in the New York area; Ernie Harwell did the game for NBC-TV, and Gordon McClendon for Mutual radio. Harwell was asked years after the fact what he said for the winning home run, and replied 'Only Mrs. Harwell knows'.
Hodges' home run call became widely circulated only because some Dodger fan who decided to tape-record the ninth inning(wanting to preserve the final 3 outs for the pennant) decided to send the tape to Hodges instead of throwing it away.
 
Hodges' call has become so much a part of baseball lore that
it's easy for someone like me, who was born after 1951, to
think the whole country saw or heard it live. Thanks for that
bit of info.

And does anyone know the whereabouts of the call of that
1956 World Series game when Don Larsen pitched a perfect game?
There hasn't been one since.
 
bpatrick said:
And does anyone know the whereabouts of the call of that
1956 World Series game when Don Larsen pitched a perfect game?
There hasn't been one since.
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The NBC radio call of the last out of Larsen's perfect game was by Bob Wolff. It's around and even used for the audio when a film of that event is shown on TV. I have it on a 33 1/3 record.
 
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