About The Show
Join us as the history of America's Favourite Pastime is retold, one classic game at a time. Using archived news reports, articles, and historical records, Classic Baseball Radio re-creates the broadcasts of key moments, historical hits, and baseball legends from more than a century of America's favourite pasttime as you have never heard it before.
How Does This Work?
Baseball has always been a game that is exhaustively recorded. Through boxscores, socrecards and play-by-play charts, the facts of games have been recorded since late in the ninteenth century. Using records gathered and collated by sites such as Sports Reference and Retrosheet, it is possible to see what happened. The further back you go, the less detail is in the records, but you can reach back to the 1920s and still have enough detail to reconstruct much of a game.
That's our starting point. With these records, we have the foundation to recreate a full game of baseball. Some details of the game will need to be added in by hand (and we've developed our own procedural-based game recreation engine to do so), other emotions will need to be spun from whole cloth. Take all of that, mix in with some foley sound effects, add a decidedly Scottish commentator and you have an episode of Classic Baseball Radio.
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While we prepare for the new game broadcasts from Classic Baseball Radio, why not explore the Classic Baseball Radio Archives with library broadcasts from the golden age of baseball?