344 pages
26 photographs, 8 tables
“Once upon a time you had to go to a ballpark to experience a ball game. Today most of us enjoy baseball across several media, and almost always alone. A game on radio—or via television or Internet or news account—is not as good as being part of the crowd at the ballpark, but what is? This book. James Walker traces the history of baseball on the radio with unmatched love and erudition.”
—John Thorn, official historian of Major League Baseball and author of Baseball in the Garden of Eden
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Game in Words and Sound
Part I. The Formative Years, 1920–36
1. Early World Series Coverage
2. The Local Game Begins
3. Inventing a New Craft
4. The Baseball-Radio War
5. The World Series Triggers a National Obsession
6. Advertisers Expand Baseball Coverage
Part II. The Age of Acceptance, 1937–60
7. Re-Creating Baseball
8. Baseball Reluctantly Embraces Radio
9. An Explosion in National Coverage
Part III. The Television Years, 1961–Present
10. Radio in the Age of Television
11. The Modern Baseball Announcer
12. Baseball Broadcasts in the Digital Era
Epilogue
Appendix: Number of Team Radio Stations by Year, 1936–2001
Notes
Index
