Baseball Historian Podcast

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Baseball Historian 35 Roger Maris hits 61st Homerun Sep 16, 2006

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Baseball Historian presents October 1, 1961 Roger Maris hits his 61st homerun and breaks Babe Ruths 35 year record for the most homeruns in a season.

Baseball Historian 34 Game 7 of 1960 World Series Pirates vs Yankees Sep 09, 2006

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Baseball Historian presents Game 7 of the 1960 World Series between Pittsburg Pirates vs New York Yankees

Baseball Historian 33 It Happens Every Spring Sep 02, 2006

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Baseball Historian presents another baseball related program called Screen Director's Playhouse. April 14, 1950 "It Happens Every Spring". . A well done baseball comedy about a college professor who becomes a star pitcher for St. Louis, thanks to his magic "hair tonic." Anne Diamond, Bill Cairn (director), Dan Riss, Eddie Fields, Frank Barton (announcer), Frank Nelson, Henry Russell (composer, conductor), Howard Wiley (producer), Jimmy Wallington (announcer), Lloyd Bacon (guest screen director), Parley Baer, Ray Milland (narrator), Richard Allen Simmons (adaptor), Ted de Corsia.

Baseball Historian 32 Aug 26, 2006

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Baseball Historian presents Babe Ruth calling his shoot against the Cubs, a song "Sunny Side Up" and My Favorite Husband. September 16, 1949. "Baseball" Liz and Iris are determined to learn how to play baseball. Gale Gordon, Hans Conried, Lucille Ball, Richard Denning, Isabel Scott Rorick (creator).

Baseball Historian 31 Boston Blackie 4/16/46 and Jolting Joe DeMaggio Aug 20, 2006

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Baseball Historian Presents Boston Blackie 4/16/46 and Jolting Joe DeMaggio Boston Blackie. April 16, 1946 Murder takes place at the baseball game. Clem McCarthy is heard as the announcer broadcasting the game. Richard Kollmar, Maurice Tarplin, Jan Miner, Clem McCarthy

Baseball Historian Episode 30 Archie Andrews, Fred Tries To Enjoy a Ballgame Jul 29, 2006

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Baseball Historian presents comedy with Archie Andrews, with a baseball theme "Fred Tries To Enjoy A Ballgame"-5/20/51Archie Andrews was a direct spin-off of the popular teenage comic strip created by Bob Montana. Radio was successful with many comic characters, so putting another popular comic "on radio" was a natural. This show was one of the first wanting to win a teenage audience by doing a situation comedy show completely for them, and with them in the audience at the broadcasts.

Baseball Historian Episode 29 Adventures of Babe Ruth and Family Theatre Jul 22, 2006

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Baseball Historian presents The Adventures Of Babe Ruth. Babe teaches a bully a lesson when he finds out that he's been forcing young kids to steal for him. Babe Ruth is impersonated. Gardner Malloy, Jackson Beck (announcer).and

Family Theatre. June 10, 1953."Another Catcher In The Family". Sustaining. An aging Major League catcher is asked to train his own replacement...and then the young player marries the older catcher's daughter! Frank Fay (host), Pat O'Brien, Betty Lynn, Ken Christy, Harry Zimmerman (composer, conductor), Tony La Frano (announcer), Eddie Firestone, Jack Mitchell (writer), Joseph Mansfield (director), Leo Cleary, Bill Baukum.

Baseball Historian Episode 28 Waite Hoyt In the Rain Baseball Jul 15, 2006

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Baseball Historian present Waite Hoyt In The Rain Baseball. There used to be more patience with rain delays on the radio. In those days, we used to have Waite Hoyt, who turned the rain delay into story time. Cincinnati liked to curl up and let the skies weep all over the roof as the old Yankee enchanted the town with tales of Babe Ruth, Miller Huggins and the folklore he had lived so hard.

Baseball Historian Episode 27 The Fourth Strike Jul 08, 2006

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Baseball Historian presents Family Theatre. March 20, 1949 "The Fourth Strike"

A new man in town organizes the local kids into a baseball team and becomes a hero. The baseball coach has a hidden past. John Lund (host), Guy Madison, Colleen Townsend, Wade Miller (writer), Max Terr (composer, conductor), David Young (director), Eddie Firestone, Peter Rankin, Norman Field, Merrill Ross (announcer), Fred Howard, Sam Edwards, Dick Ryan.

Baseball Historian Episode 26 Dizzy Dean Show and Bill Stern Sports Newsreel Jul 01, 2006

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Baseball Historian presents Dizzy Dean Show Bucky Waters 7/24/48 and Bill Stern Sports Newsreel with guest Joe Lewis 12/7/45

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