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Classic radio broadcasts of baseball and football games and interviews from the past 100 years in sports history. Hear the greats like Vin Scully, Ernie Harwell, Mel Allen, Harry Caray, and Phil Rizzuto with the vintage radio play-by-play. Full games are published 3 times a week on Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday. Bonus content and interview clips will be published on Mondays. All of the old-time radio broadcasts distributed in this podcast are either in the public domain, have expired copyright, or are freely available in Creative Commons at various internet sources. Visit RetroSeasons for more sports history.

  1. 5d ago ·  Bonus

    1981 - Baseball Clip - 1981 Los Angeles Dodgers - Vin Scully Highlights

    The 1981 Dodgers season was split into two halves by the players' strike that wiped out roughly two months of the schedule in June and July. Los Angeles won the National League West outright in the first half under manager Tom Lasorda, then qualified again as a division half-season winner, which meant an extra postseason round — the first National League Division Series — was added against the Houston Astros, who'd won the second half. The Dodgers took that series in five games. The season is also remembered as the year of Fernando Valenzuela, a 20-year-old left-hander who opened the year with eight straight wins, five of them shutouts, and went on to win both the Cy Young Award and Rookie of the Year, a combination no pitcher had achieved before. From there, Los Angeles beat the Montreal Expos in the NLCS on Rick Monday's ninth-inning home run in the deciding Game 5 — a moment still referred to in Montreal as Blue Monday — and went on to face the Yankees in the World Series. The Dodgers dropped the first two games in New York before winning four straight, giving the franchise its first title since 1965 and its first over the Yankees since 1963, following World Series losses to New York in 1977 and 1978. Veterans Steve Garvey, Ron Cey, and Steve Yeager were in their final years together as an infield/battery core that had been intact since the mid-1970s, while Valenzuela, Fernando-mania aside, was in just his first full big-league season. #1981Dodgers #Fernandomania #BlueMonday #WorldSeries1981 #MLBHistory

    1981 - Baseball Clip - 1981 Los Angeles Dodgers - Vin Scully Highlights

  2. Sep 25

    1977-Jun-23 - NYY/NYM - New York Yankees vs New York Mets - Exhibition Mayors Trophy Game - Classic Baseball Radio Broadcast

    The Mayor's Trophy Game was a charity exhibition born out of civic pride and old-fashioned New York baseball rivalry — a way to let the city's teams settle bragging rights in a low-stakes summer game while funneling gate proceeds into sandlot baseball for city kids. It started in 1946 as a Yankees-Giants series for a trophy named after Mayor William O'Dwyer, with the Dodgers joining in occasionally, and it carried real stakes for fans even if teams often didn't send their best arms (rosters were frequently padded with Triple-A call-ups to spare the real staffs). The series died when the Giants and Dodgers left for California after 1957, had a quiet interlude of occasional Yankees exhibitions against out-of-town clubs, then found new life in 1963 once the Mets arrived to become New York's "other" team. It ran with real regularity through 1979, went dark for two years when the two clubs just wrote checks to charity instead, came back briefly in 1982-83, and then died for good — a casualty of dwindling attendance and, fittingly, a 1983 finale so troubled that regular umpires refused to work it and college umps had to fill in. Throughout, the game's charm was its low-stakes, oddball nature: rain delays that pushed dates around, home run derbies as a preliminary event, players who'd have brief and otherwise forgettable careers becoming the story of the day, and moments of real civic sentiment (the 1948 game paused for news of Babe Ruth's death; the 1960 Dodgers-Yankees game benefited an injured Roy Campanella). The 1977 game specifically: Played at Shea Stadium on June 23 (rescheduled from a rained-out May 9 date), it drew just 15,510 fans — by far the smallest crowd since the Mets-Yankees version of the series resumed in 1963, a sign of how much air had gone out of the event by the late '70s. The Mets won 6-4, with home runs from Joel Youngblood and Ron Hodges providing the offense. Fittingly for a series that often saved its regulars, both pitchers of record were Triple-A farmhands rather than established major leaguers: Tom Makowski took the win for the Mets, and Roger Slagle took the loss for the Yankees — a small, forgettable footnote of a game that nonetheless captured exactly what the series had become by then: a charity obligation more than a real rivalry showcase.

    1977-Jun-23 - NYY/NYM - New York Yankees vs New York Mets - Exhibition Mayors Trophy Game - Classic Baseball Radio Broadcast

  3. Sep 24 ·  Bonus

    1964 - Baseball Clip - 1964 St Louis Cardinals - Highlights

    Announcers - Jack Buck - Harry Caray The Cardinals' 1964 pennant race and World Series win, presented as a season-ending recap by the club's radio team of Harry Caray and Jack Buck. Caray had already been the voice of the Cardinals for close to two decades by 1964, having joined the broadcast in the mid-1940s; Buck, who would go on to call Cardinals baseball into the 2000s, was roughly a decade into that partnership. The pair narrate a collapse-and-recovery pennant race — the Cardinals trailed by as many as 13 games at midseason, then caught both the Phillies (who lost 10 straight down the stretch) and the Reds on the final weekend of the season, clinching on October 4th. The roster referenced reflects a team in transition. Lou Brock, acquired from the Cubs in a June trade that summer, was just beginning the run that would carry him to Cooperstown, while Bob Gibson — three years from his historic 1.12 ERA season in 1968 — worked as a workhorse starter on short rest through both the pennant clincher and multiple World Series starts. Ken Boyer, the NL MVP that year, and rookie Bill White are heard alongside Tim McCarver and Curt Flood. The World Series itself went seven games against the Yankees, New York's last pennant of the Mickey Mantle/Whitey Ford era before a long decline; the Cardinals' Game 7 win gave the franchise its first title since 1946. #1964WorldSeries #HarryCaray #JackBuck #BobGibson #CardinalsHistory

    1964 - Baseball Clip - 1964 St Louis Cardinals - Highlights

  4. Sep 23

    1969-Aug-31 - PHI/LAD - Philadelphia Phillies vs Los Angeles Dodgers - Classic Baseball Radio Broadcast

    - 1969 MLB Standings - Sunday, August 31, 1969 - Start Time: 1:00 p.m. Local - Attendance: 19,357 - Venue: Dodger Stadium - - Radio Announcers - Vin Scully - Jerry Doggett - - Managers - George Myatt - Walt Alston - - Starting Lineups - 1969 Philadelphia Phillies - 1 - SS - Terry Harmon - 2 - CF - John Briggs - 3 - 1B - Dick Allen - 4 - RF - Johnny Callison - 5 - 3B - Deron Johnson - 6 - LF - Ron Stone - 7 - C - Dave Watkins - 8 - 2B - Cookie Rojas - 9 - P - Rick Wise - - 1969 Los Angeles Dodgers - 1 - SS - Maury Wills - 2 - LF - Manny Mota - 3 - CF - Willie Davis - 4 - 1B - Wes Parker - 5 - RF - Willie Crawford - 6 - 3B - Bill Sudakis - 7 - C - Tom Haller - 8 - 2B - Ted Sizemore - 9 - P - Bill Singer -

    1969-Aug-31 - PHI/LAD - Philadelphia Phillies vs Los Angeles Dodgers - Classic Baseball Radio Broadcast

  5. Sep 20

    1978-Aug-16 - CLE/DET - Cleveland Indians vs Detroit Tigers - Classic Baseball Radio Broadcast

    - 1978 MLB Standings - Wednesday, August 16, 1978 - Start Time: 8:00 p.m. Local - Attendance: 15,819 - Venue: Tiger Stadium - - Radio Announcers - Herb Score - Joe Tate - - Managers - Jeff Torborg - Ralph Houk - - Starting Lineups - 1978 Cleveland Indians - 1 - CF - Rick Manning - 2 - 3B - Buddy Bell - 3 - LF - Johnny Grubb - 4 - 1B - Andre Thornton - 5 - C - Gary Alexander - 6 - DH - Bernie Carbo - 7 - RF - Jim Norris - 8 - 2B - Duane Kuiper - 9 - SS - Tom Veryzer - - P - David Clyde - - 1978 Detroit Tigers - 1 - CF - Ron LeFlore - 2 - 2B - Lou Whitaker - 3 - DH - Rusty Staub - 4 - LF - Steve Kemp - 5 - C - Lance Parrish - 6 - 3B - Aurelio Rodríguez - 7 - 1B - Mickey Stanley - 8 - RF - Tim Corcoran - 9 - SS - Alan Trammell - - P - Jack Billingham -

    1978-Aug-16 - CLE/DET - Cleveland Indians vs Detroit Tigers - Classic Baseball Radio Broadcast

  6. Sep 18

    1961-Jun-18 - NYY/DET - New York Yankees vs Detroit Tigers - Classic Baseball Radio Broadcast

    - 1961 MLB Standings - Sunday, June 18, 1961 - Attendance: 44,459 - Venue: Tiger Stadium - - Radio Announcers - Mel Allen - - Managers - Ralph Houk - Bob Scheffing - - Starting Lineups - 1961 New York Yankees - 1 - 2B - Bobby Richardson - 2 - 3B - Clete Boyer - 3 - RF - Roger Maris - 4 - CF - Mickey Mantle - 5 - LF - Yogi Berra - 6 - 1B - Bill Skowron - 7 - C - Johnny Blanchard - 8 - SS - Joe DeMaestri - 9 - P - Whitey Ford - - 1961 Detroit Tigers - 1 - 2B - Jake Wood - 2 - CF - Bill Bruton - 3 - RF - Al Kaline - 4 - LF - Rocky Colavito - 5 - 1B - Norm Cash - 6 - C - Dick Brown - 7 - SS - Chico Fernández - 8 - 3B - Ozzie Virgil - 9 - P - Frank Lary -

    1961-Jun-18 - NYY/DET - New York Yankees vs Detroit Tigers - Classic Baseball Radio Broadcast

  7. Sep 17 ·  Bonus

    1969 - Baseball Clip - 1969 New York Mets Album - Highlights

    Announcers - Lindsey Nelson - Bob Murphy - Ralph Kiner - Summary The 1969 Mets came into the season as a franchise that had never finished higher than ninth place in its seven years of existence, going back to a 120-loss debut in 1962. Manager Gil Hodges, a former Dodgers and Mets first baseman then in his second season running the club, had the team in third place and nine and a half games out as late as mid-August. From there Los Angeles's rebuild is not part of this story — the Mets instead won 38 of their final 49 games, a stretch that included a 10-game September winning streak, to overtake the Chicago Cubs, who had led the NL East for most of the summer. Tom Seaver, in his third major league season, won 25 games and the NL Cy Young Award that year; Jerry Koosman won 17. Nolan Ryan, still primarily a reliever/spot starter years before his strikeout records with the Angels, Astros, and Rangers, appears in a lesser roleThe Mets swept the Atlanta Braves in the first-ever National League Championship Series, then beat the heavily favored Baltimore Orioles — a 109-win club with future Hall of Famers Frank Robinson, Brooks Robinson, and Jim Palmer — in five games to win the franchise's first World Series title. #1969Mets #TomSeaver #GilHodges #MiracleMets #WorldSeries1969

    1969 - Baseball Clip - 1969 New York Mets Album - Highlights

  8. Sep 13

    1970-Jun-28 - NYM/MON - New York Mets vs Montreal Expos - Classic Baseball Radio Broadcast

    - 1970 MLB Standings - Sunday, June 28, 1970 - Start Time: 8:05 p.m. Local - Attendance: 27,154 - Venue: Parc Jarry - - Radio Announcers - Lindsey Nelson - Bob Murphy - Ralph Kiner - - Managers - Gil Hodges - Gene Mauch - - Starting Lineups - 1970 New York Mets - 1 - CF - Tommie Agee - 2 - SS - Bud Harrelson - 3 - LF - Ken Singleton - 4 - 1B - Art Shamsky - 5 - RF - Dave Marshall - 6 - 2B - Ken Boswell - 7 - 3B - Joe Foy - 8 - C - Jerry Grote - 9 - P - Ray Sadecki - - 1970 Montreal Expos - 1 - LF - Don Hahn - 2 - 2B - Gary Sutherland - 3 - RF - Rusty Staub - 4 - CF - Adolfo Phillips - 5 - 3B - Coco Laboy - 6 - C - John Bateman - 7 - 1B - Ron Fairly - 8 - SS - Bobby Wine - 9 - P - Carl Morton -

    1970-Jun-28 - NYM/MON - New York Mets vs Montreal Expos - Classic Baseball Radio Broadcast
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Classic radio broadcasts of baseball and football games and interviews from the past 100 years in sports history. Hear the greats like Vin Scully, Ernie Harwell, Mel Allen, Harry Caray, and Phil Rizzuto with the vintage radio play-by-play. Full games are published 3 times a week on Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday. Bonus content and interview clips will be published on Mondays. All of the old-time radio broadcasts distributed in this podcast are either in the public domain, have expired copyright, or are freely available in Creative Commons at various internet sources. Visit RetroSeasons for more sports history.

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