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Classic Baseball Radio

Through recreations of the original radio broadcasts, the history of America"s favorite pastime is retold, one classic game at a time. We use archived news reports, articles, and historical records to recreate the sound and style of the broadcasts. Listen and relive key moments, historical hits, and the legends of today taking to the field when they were at the peak of their career. Add Classic Baseball radio to any podcast app or service; just copy "tinyurl.com/baseballpod" into the "Add RSS

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02:21:54

Bob Friend's New York State Of Mind, Astros at Mets,...

Classic Baseball Radio ·

2023/06/26

A key pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates in the late fifties and early sixties, Bob Friend still holds the Pirates' career records for innings pitched (3480), strikeouts (1682), and batters faced (14,644). The four-time All Star played with Pittsburgh for fifteen years, but the last year of his MLB career saw him play in New York… adding delightful footnote. He played the first half of the season with the New York Yankees, and the second half of the season with the New York Mets. Truly a

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02:22:38

The Best Leftie In The World Is Warren Spahn, Yankees...

Classic Baseball Radio ·

2023/06/19

Warren Spahn has finished out the 1958 season with 22 wins. That's an important stat, as it marks him out as the first left-handed pitcher to have nine 'twenty win seasons' in the Majors. He will eventually record 363 wins in his career. It should come as no surprise that the best left-handed pitcher each year wins The Warren Spahn Award. His 22 wins in the 1958 season have brought the Milwaukee Braves to the World Series. Facing the New York Yankees, both teams have a 92-62 record from

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02:43:29

The Afternoon The Singing Cowboy Saw His Angels...

Classic Baseball Radio ·

2023/06/12

Founded by the American Actor Gene Autry, the Los Angeles Angles was one of the the first expansion clubs (the other being Washington). The first year they played at the Los Angeles Wrigley Field - home of the previous LA Angels who had played in the PCL league. Four years as tennants of the Dogers followed, before Angel Stadium was opened. The team may not be as storied or as rewarded as the original teams (for example, the Angles are one for one in World Series apperances, the sole apperance and

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01:13:54

Small Wins Add Up To Huge Career, Milt Pappas' 209...

Classic Baseball Radio ·

2023/06/05

Milt Pappas made the All-Star Game three times, had a 10-year streak over .500 wins, an eleven year streak of double digit wins, pitched for 209 wins in his career… and never managed more than 17 wins in a season. That might feel about right for a pitcher in 2023, but back in 1972 Pappas was the epitomy of a long, slow burn into the history books. June 17th 1972 saw the Los Angeles Dodgers are visting Wrigley Field, and Pappas is on the mound for the Cubs. We join the game during the top of the

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02:38:09

Steal and Hit and Steal and Hit, Bobby Bonds...

Classic Baseball Radio ·

2023/05/01

As the MLB works to bring the stolen base back into the game, let's remember one of the great power hitters who combined the hits with the speed. Bobby Bonds was the first player have two season with 30 home runs and 30 stolen bases, setting the record of five thirty-thirty seasons… a record that has never been beaten, although he now shares the five season ticket with his son Barry Bonds. By the end of his career - a career that saw him play for eight different teams before returning to the

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01:54:03

From Philadelphia, through Kansas City and Oakland,...

Classic Baseball Radio ·

2023/04/24

With the news that the Athletic are set to leave Oakland for the shiny bright lights of Las Vegas, it's worth remembering just how often the club has moved around. Way back in 1901, a new Philadelphia team was founded, and it joined the nascent American League, winning the Pennant six times and the World Series three times in the first twelve years. Their next period of dominace was during the Great Depression, with three Pennans and two more World Series. But that was the last glory for the

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03:43:40

Orlando Cepeda, The Unanimous MVP With Incredible...

Classic Baseball Radio ·

2023/04/16

If you wanted someone who could hit for power in the expansion era, you wanted Orlando Cepeda. The so-called 'Baby Bull' would be in contention for the leading batting, home run, RBI, slugging, and total bases awards every year for his first five years. He would alos be the first Puerto Rican All-Star, taking to the field in 1959. His first nine years saw him play first base for the San Francisco Giants (at the same time as Willie McCovey was also staking his claim to the same position). At

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02:34:49

The Man Who Invented Our Favorite Donut, July 26th, 1955

Classic Baseball Radio ·

2023/04/10

Elston Howard was the first African American player on the New York Yankees roster, he was the first black player to win the American League MVP award, and he held the fielding percentage record as a catcher (a career .993) for seven years. He also invented the batter's donut. The now ubiquitous warm-up aid debuted in 1955 - with the St Louis Cardians the first to invest in it. Unfortunatly a lack of funds meant Howard and his partners struggled to combat copycat manufacturers. The Yankees

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02:16:31

Fifty Hit By Pitches In A Single Season, June 11th, 1971

Classic Baseball Radio ·

2023/04/03

Ron Hunt can rightly be described as loving the ball more than any batter in the 1971 season, when he became the first batter to be hit by fifty pitches in a single year. It wasn't an aberration either; in the last seven years of his twelve year career he led the Hit By Pitch counter in the National League. His all-time count of 243 HBPs was the record in the live-ball era, and would not be overtaken for sixteen years. We join Ron Hunt as he leads off for the Expos as the Dodgers visit Canada

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02:22:27

Jim Bunning's Perfect Game, Phillies at Mets, 21st...

Classic Baseball Radio ·

2023/03/27

It's Father's Day, and Jim Bunning steps up on the mound to start the first game of a double-header for the Phillies and the Mets in Shea Stadium. He's going to throw 89 pitches that will burn his name into the history books. He'll be number seven in an incredibly exclusive club that has only 23 members. He'll be the first National League pitcher to join the club since 1880. This is Jim Bunning's Perfect Game. Matt Murphy, Lindsay Nelson, and Ralph Cainer on Mets Radio call

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02:47:07

Ted Williams, The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived,...

Classic Baseball Radio ·

2023/03/20

Ted Williams sits alongside the likes of Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Hank Aaron in the pantheon of baseball hitters. He spent his entire time in the Majors with the Boston Red Sox. Over 19 years he averaged .344/.482/.634. He was the last player to average over .400 in a single season, and to this day that .482 on base percentage is highest of all time. It's 1960, and Ted Williams is in his last season. Naturally the Boston Red Soxs have put him in the three-hole as the team faces Ralph Terry of the

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01:32:43

Goodbye New York, 8th September, 1957

Classic Baseball Radio ·

2023/03/13

The New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers played their final game together on 8th September, 1957. 22,376 crowded into the Polo Grounds to say goodbye to the rival teams. Of course the Giants and the Dodgers weren't leaving baseball, they were both heading out to California to establish Major League Baseball on the West Coast where they play to this day. But this would be it for the classic New York rivalry. We head into the final game of a three game series. The Dodgers have already taken

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02:25:21

Miracle Mets Reach The First NL Divisional Series,...

Classic Baseball Radio ·

2023/03/06

Thanks to the expansion teams, 1969 saw the AL and NL both split into two divisions. That resulted in the first divisional championship games ahead of the World Series. In the National League the Atlanta Braves picked up the first NL West pennant, and faced an unexpected opponent in the NLCS. For the first seven years of the Mets, this expansion team never climbed higher than ninth place, and in five of the seven years lost more than 100 games each season. 1969 was the eighth year of the Mets, and

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02:16:07

Two St Louis And One World Series, 9th October, 1944

Classic Baseball Radio ·

2023/02/27

The world had other things on its mind during 1944, but baseball was there when America needed to take a break from the horrors of war. It wasn't pretty baseball; the fittest men were on the front lines, others were pulling double and trip shifts in factories, and that left a depleted pool of players. But it was baseball nonetheless, and it added another line to the history of the game, with the only World Series appearance of the St Louis Browns; in part due to an older roster who were ineligible

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02:33:25

Remembering Tim McCarver, Cardinals at Mets, 8th...

Classic Baseball Radio ·

2023/02/20

Legendary catcher and broadcaster Tim McCarver died this weekend, aged 81. Here at Classic Baseball Radio, we'd like to take a moment to remember his career with one of his earliest appearances as Catcher for the St Louis Cardinals. As a player, he won two World Series, appeared in two All-Star games, and is a member of the Cardinals' Hall of Fame. He is one of just 31 players to have played in four different decades of baseball in a career spanning 41 years. In total had a batting average of .271,

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01:50:06

Denny McLain Chases 30 Wins, Athletic at Tigers, 14th...

Classic Baseball Radio ·

2023/02/13

1968 is known as 'The Year Of The Pitcher', and no other pitcher stood out more than the Detroit Tigers' Denny McLain. With a winning record for the last three years, his achievement in the '68 season would become one of the greatest pitching performances in history. Because the wins just kept coming. It's September 14th, and the Tigers welcome the Oakland Athletic to Detroit. McLain is first up at the mound, sitting on a 29-5 record. The last pitcher to hit 30 wins was Dizzy Dean of the 1934 St

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03:16:01

Topps' Most Valuable Player In The World, 1952 World...

Classic Baseball Radio ·

2023/02/06

It's the 1952 World Series with the Yankees and Dodgers taking it to Game 7. On the Yankees line-up is a certain Mickey Mantle, and his 1952 season is one for the record books. This was the year of the Topps Mickey Mantle Baseball Card… the most expensive baseball card in the world Although Topps' cards debuted in 1951, that year saw a pack more akin to playing cards. 1952 saw the cards we know and love; the picture, the text, and the candy. 407 players, in three sets, but it was Mantle's card which

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02:37:27

The All-Star Game of All-Star Games, 13th July, 1971

Classic Baseball Radio ·

2023/01/30

You expect to see the big names in any All-Star Game. But in 1971, the two rosters between them featured 21 players who would eventually reach the Hall Of Fame. Of the 16 position players, 10 would reach Cooperstown. Willie Mays opens up the batting; Roberto Clemente makes his last All-Star appearance; Hank Aaron reaches the fence for the first time in the Summer Classic; heck, even Pete Rose pops up. If you want to watch out for something special, count off how many home runs are hit, and how many

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02:59:35

Luis Aparicio Steals The Season, Yankees at White...

Classic Baseball Radio ·

2023/01/23

Who can steal bases? Luis Aparicio can steal bases. With nine consecutive years as the American League leader in stolen bases between 1956 and 1964, and over 500 in his career, Aparicio is one of the legendary base runners. And that's before you look at his record number career hits as a shortstop… only beaten by the New York Yankees' Derek Jeter in 2009. Is it any wonder the Chicago White Sox retired his #11? In today's classic, we join the 1960 White Sox as they welcome, of course, the Yankees to

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02:38:27

Goodbye Forbes Field, Cubs at Pirates, 28th June, 1970

Classic Baseball Radio ·

2023/01/16

After 61 years, the Pittsburgh Pirates said goodbye to Forbes Field in the middle of the season before moving to Three Rivers Park. Built in 1909 it was the home not only of the Pirates, but also the NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers, and the University of Pittsburgh's Pitt Panthers. We join Bob Prince, Nellie King, and Gene Osborn on KDKA for the second game in the double-header. The Pirates took the first game 3-2, can they close out their time at Forbes Field with a final victory? You can find the

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