Ewan Spence, WBSC Commentary, June 2025

The Mission Of Classic Baseball Radio

Over 240,000 games have been played in Major League Baseball. Through the dilligent actions of researchers and archivists, countless details on these games have been preserved. Unfortunatly, audio and video from these games has been lost to time, even if they were recorded in the first place. Yet we have enough information about these game that we can take a good swing at recreating the game, just as many radio stations did once baseball reached the radio in the 1920s. Here's SABR's Robert Cole:

"For road games, the announcer would sit in the studio of his radio station and receive brief pitch-by-pitch details from a Western Union telegrapher at the site of play. The announcer would pass that sporadic information on to his listeners, sometimes with dramatization, in what was known as a re-creation of the game."

With the digital requivalent of the tickertape messages we can bring these baseball games back to life.

Meet your guide, Ewan Spence

The creator and producer of the Classic Baseball Radio podcast is Ewan Spence.

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