FILE - New York Yankees announcer Mel Allen, seated, reports the game between the Yankees and Baltimore Orioles from the television box behind home plate at Yankee Stadium on May 11, 1956, in New York. NEW YORK — Growing up in the Boston suburbs, Suzyn Waldman fell madly in love with two things: baseball and Broadway shows.
FILE - Baseballer Charlie Grimm,left, deposed by the Chicago Cubs in favor of Gabby Hartnett as manager, takes up new duties as a radio broadcaster at the ball games at Wrigley Field in Chicago, July 25, 1938. He's assisted by Pat Flanagan, a broadcasting colleague. . “I still like baseball on the radio,” John Thorn, official historian for MLB, said in an email.
It’s a romantic history, too, thick with unmistakable voices and signature calls forever immortalized as the familiar soundtracks to those grainy old highlight reels of Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays and Ted Williams. FILE - New York Yankees announcer Mel Allen, seated, reports the game between the Yankees and Baltimore Orioles from the television box behind home plate at Yankee Stadium on May 11, 1956, in New York. Indeed, AM radio provided a gateway to the game for all sorts of folks at a time in America when ballpark stands were mostly filled with white men.