Something for your iPods

by Bitter Fan on Jan 3, 2009 11:27 PM PST

Just thought I'd dump this in your laps. It's the most famous Giants game ever ever. On October 3, 1951, Gordon McLendon's Liberty Broadcasting System was providing the radio call to much of the country, since Russ Hodges and Red Barber were only heard in the Tri-State area. It's the only complete radio account of the game, and the ol' Scotchman himself was filling in as a solid if verbose announcer, moonlighting from his normal day job of inventing Top 40 radio, running for Senator, and possibly conspiring to kill Kennedy (if you believe Warren Hinckle).

His call of Thomson's home run is every bit as hair-raising as Russ Hodges's, more so, in fact.

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Cool! Thank you so much!!

I used to be disgusted, but now I try to be amused!

by PLUChris on Jan 3, 2009 11:42 PM PST reply actions

Heh.

“…the utter blank despair…”
Is there anyone contemporary who calls a game in that storytelling style? That’s entertaining as hell!
Thanks for sharing that with us.

Who has the fun?
Is it always the man with the gun?
- The Stranglers

by victor frankenstein on Jan 4, 2009 6:10 AM PST up reply actions

Was Orson Welles a former baseball announcer?

Wall-E for Best Picture 2008

by Useful_Idiot on Jan 4, 2009 10:02 AM PST up reply actions

wow!

We don't really have that much pitching depth. We don't really have that much pitching depth. FOR GOD SAKE, VERUCA, DON'T GO FAKE TRADING JONATHAN SANCHEZ. We don't really have that much pitching depth

by oldjacket on Jan 4, 2009 9:00 AM PST reply actions

god, that was fantastic. Suspenseful, too, somehow, never having heard this call. Thanks so much!

by sularz on Jan 4, 2009 3:15 PM PST reply actions

Wait, Warren Hinckle?

What’s he got to do with this? Did you know he has the smelliest dog in the history of caninekind?

Still-proud, adoptive mama of Notgardo Alfonzo, who's back from the 50-game purgatory. He promises never to do it again. I couldn't get him to promise to hit, though. We're working on that with bribes of M&Ms, kind of like potty training.

by tk on Jan 4, 2009 4:31 PM PST reply actions