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#6 - April 6, 2015

I Don't Care If I Never Get Back: The Golden Age of Baseball Radio Broadcasts

How did baseball come to be America's national pastime? Also, a deep look at how and why radio dominated professional sports in the mid-century, and why baseball is still the sport of the future.

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Show Notes

  • Ken Burns, Baseball – PBS Series
  • The Box Score (Wikipedia)
  • Tim Kurkjian, nostalgia for original box score collecting
  • Famous political event and breakthrough of Jackie Robinson, first African American in major league baseball
  • Famous insider autobiography by Jim Bouton’s BALL FOUR
  • VIDEO: Mel Allen, White Sox @ Dodgers 1959 World Series game, Sandy Koufax pitching from LA Coliseum with short left field fence - see Game #10 in the list.
  • LA Coliseum – left field impossibly short, “Moon shots,” Dodgers moved in 1958 – first world series (90K seating)
  • Unreleased Brian Wilson (Beach Boys) song about baseball, sung by Dennis Wilson, "It's Trying to Say,"
  • Bruce's Ten Greatest Baseball Movies
  • George Carlin routine on baseball
  • Expansion teams and dates
  • Moonshot (Wikipedia)
  • Japanese Toyota advertisement celebrating baseball (thanks to Michael Malanga for sending this link along)

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