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I grew up listening to a lot games on the radio. I would rather listen to a game on the radio than watch one on TV.

Nothing better than Mark Holtz and Eric Nadel doing a Ranger game on the radio!! They were the best!

Any stories out there about games on the radio when you were growing up?

I remember listening to David Clyde's debut in 73'. That was something!!
"You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time"
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First game I remember listening to was 3rd grade. Snuck in with a rocket shaped transitor with the earphone run up my sleeve. You had to slide the antenna to tune the stations and clip it to a piece of metal to ground it. Feel sure the teacher knew. It was a World Series game involving the Yankees and Dodgers. Looooooong time ago.
Absolutely listening to baseball on the radio is what made me fall in love with baseball. We had one TV in the family room and bed time meant I couldn't see the end of the game...I did have a radio in my bedroom.

I became a Yankee's fan following Greg Nettles, Thurman Munson, Lou Pinella and I loved listening Bill White and Phil Rizzuto.

Holly Cow!!! Good Night you Huckleberrys!!
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nothing gets the baseball juices going better than hearing the following on the radio

Its the bottom of the ninth, 2 outs, and our boys are down by a run with a runner on 1st

pitch is on the way - strike called
- low and away ball 1
- curve ball in the dirt ball 2
- long drive down the left field line going, going,-- foul
- slider just misses the inside corner, full count

then you hear the crack of a bat,

"its a line drive to deep left center, this ball is going, going, the centerfielder is back, back, he's on the warning track, this ball is .......
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Originally posted by Texas Crude:
Ok, here we go, we got a real pressure cooker
going here, two down, nobody on, no score,
bottom of the ninth, there's the wind-up and
there it is, a line shot up the middle, look
at him go. This boy can really fly!
He's rounding first and really turning it on
now, he's not letting up at all, he's gonna
try for second; the ball is bobbled out in center,
and here comes the throw, and what a throw!
He's gonna slide in head first, here he comes, he's out!
No, wait, safe--safe at second base, this kid really
makes things happen out there.
Batter steps up to the plate, here's the pitch--
he's going, and what a jump he's got, he's trying
for third, here's the throw, it's in the dirt--
safe at third! Holy cow, stolen base!
He's taking a pretty big lead out there, almost
daring him to try and pick him off. The pitcher
glance over, winds up, and it's bunted, bunted
down the third base line, the suicide squeeze in on!
Here he comes, squeeze play, it's gonna be close,
here's the throw, there's the play at the plate,
holy cow, I think he's gonna make it!


"Paradise by the Dashboard Light" by Meat Loaf
I grew up listening the NY Yankees on a transistor radio up thru high school. Many a night I went to sleep with an earpiece stuck in my ear listening to a Yankee Game. Holy Cow! It seems like just yesterday and now I have 3 kids all older than I was and none of my kids have even owned a little pocket transistor radio. Even today one of the things I enjoy most especially when driving is finding a game on the radio and putting the car into cruise control and listening to the crack of the bat over the radio. You can almost smell the fresh cut grass! To me watching a game on TV is ok but it sure seems to move slowly and I usually fall asleep like last night while watching the Ranger's game and missing a great comeback!
Speaking of falling asleep during a Ranger game....I'll never forget this one. Nolan Ryan was pitching in Oakland, I think, and he had a no-hitter going. It was late because the game was on the left coast and I went to finish watching the game in bed. I fell asleep, missed the no-hitter and found out about it the next day in the paper. Man was I P****d!!

I also missed seeing his 6th no-hitter by one game. We went to the game the night before!! Just my luck.

I did see Mike Witt's Perfect Game on the last game of the year in 84 I think it was. We were actually yelling like crazy for him to get it. Kinda weird rooting against the Rangers, but it was history!!
Listening to the Rangers on WBAP on a nightstand radio is a bittersweet childhood memory. Just like being a Ranger fan today.
The best baseball moment is sitting in my granddad's lap when Aaron broke Ruth's record. Wow! He told me, "Watch this. He's about to make history!" My granddad played college ball at Trinity then for the Waxahachie Cats and in the oilfields of west Texas - just like in The Rookie- He was a student of the game, and taught me to love and respect the sport. He died when I was 10, but I still think of him when I watch his namesake play.

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