I can’t believe this hasn’t been posted yet:
Yup. Listening to the Yankees play the Cards in 1964.
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Back before the World Series went to primetime, in grade school, they would let those of us interested watch a few innings on TV in the gymnasium during lunch hour, then it was back to class.
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When I was in grade school, the principal would get on the PA system and provide updates during the World Series. “Now in the 3rd inning, Johnny Bench struck out again. No change in score”
Most of the kids had no idea what was going on, but I liked Mr. White. He had at least bales of hay in the back of his pickup at all times.
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I had a baseball-shaped Dodgers-branded transistor radio which I could pick up KFI radio in LA, even though I was living in Ogden. I would listen to Vin Scully and Jerry Doggett broadcast the game. I can only get a signal at night and with the radio pointed in just the right direction.
My father was born in Brooklyn and was a diehard Dodgers fan, which he passed on to me. About the only fond memory I have of my miserable jerk of a father.
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How on earth did you become a White Sox fan?
Vin was a National Treasure.
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It’s 1973. A buddy of mine owned a dice and card based game called, “Be a Manager.” Cards were for every team and player in MLB. It was summer and to kill time we’d be playing in his basement. We all picked a team and played a short season kept stats and everything. Given their prior year, I took the Sox, especially because I thought Dick Allen was amazing. His card was in the game, too. He led our league in homers and was near the top in average and rbis. I’ve followed them ever since.
The card game was pretty cool. You had three dice. It so happens there are 56 unique combinations of three six sided dice. You’d set out your lineup and the team at bat would get to roll the dice, giving a result from 1 to 56. You’d look at the pitcher’s card to see if they had that number. If they did it could be a strikeout, walk, or a generic out. If the pitcher didn’t have the number you go to the batter’s card which had options on all 56 numbers: single, long single (which had runners advance another base or score with two out), 2B, 3B, HR, fly out, long fly out (advanced lead runner), strikeout, ground out, or walk. You could also call for steals or hit and runs and there were codes for that. Fielders also had error numbers that could come into play. It was a fun way to get into strategy.
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Also under my pillow at night when I was supposed to be asleep. Vin Scully on KFI 690, but only after sunset.
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I used to listen to Texas radio and other far away stations playing blues when weather conditions allowed radio waves to “skip” across vast distances.
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Only thing I snuck my radio into bed for was Dr. Demento 
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When I was a kid we had a high powered multi band radio that could pick up signals from all over depending on the weather. In the days before the Edmonton Oilers we would listen to Montreal Canadiens games, Edmonton Eskimos football games and various baseball games from the US. I was Reds fan so anytime we could pick up a broadcast of one of their games I would listen.
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you Dodger fans were led astray, KNBR 680 the flamethrower out of San Francisco had a much clearer broadcast when the sun went down. And you got to lusten to the Lords team rather than those Bums from LA.
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But I was listening to Don Drysdale on the play by play for the Angels. 
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There was an Albuquerque station that simulcast Vin and the Dodgers - pretty sure it was because their AAA team was there. Listened to that at night when living in Moab.
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I remember taking a transistor radio to school to listen to the dodgers/giants playoff in 1962. Also to listen to John glen orbit the earth.
I also listened to kfi every night after sunset.
Btw Kershaw proving again that he is no Koufax. He should just give up pitching in the post season.
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Reminded me of Ferguson Jenkins toward the end of his career pitching for the Cubs. I watched Fergie get pulled from the mound before the sound of the National Anthem had stopped echoing on Waveland Ave on more than one occasion.
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We could have used him last night.
Kerchoke season, again?!?!?
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Does anybody besides me remember the fourth game of the 1963 World Series? When Joe Pepitone lost the throw from Clete Boyer in the white shirts behind third base and committed the error that enable the Dodgers to sweep?
It’s funny to look at old photos or videos from 1950s and 1960s baseball or football games and see that everybody’s wearing a white shirt like you’re going to church. At that first Super Bowl in the LA Coliseum everybody was wearing a white shirt.
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