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How did you get sports scores during your youth?

4Boston4Boston Posts: 318 ✭✭✭
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Newspaper ? Which one ?
Remember how cool a box score was ?
East coast newspapers didn’t have west coast games until the next day.

What was your favorite comic ? Peanuts, Blondie, Hagar the Horrible?

Who was your 6pm news sports guy ?
NY people will remember Werner Wolf.
“Let’s go to the video tape”.

Box scores were so cool. I used to study them, and then figure out averages on a piece of paper while reading.

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  • GroceryRackPackGroceryRackPack Posts: 3,197 ✭✭✭✭✭

    How did you get sports scores during your youth?

    Chicago Sun Times...

    What was your favorite comic ?

    Family Circus...

    Who was your 6pm news sports guy ?

    never really had one...though is 6PM your time or my time???
    :)

  • stevekstevek Posts: 28,989 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Reminds me of my time as a paperboy. For around a year, I delivered the Philadelphia Bulletin to around 50 suburban single homes. Try maneuvering 50 newspapers in a front basket on a Schwinn bike when the roads are icy. But I liked the money more than the toil. I only quit because I could make more money cutting lawns, and in the winter waiting for a snow and raking in the cash shoveling sidewalks and driveways.

    Yes I used to enjoy the baseball box scores. Now though I rarely look at a baseball box score. However I look at football box scores all the time.

  • LandrysFedoraLandrysFedora Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I got my baseball box scores as a youth via the Sun Sentinel (Ft Lauderdale)

    Favorite comic strip was The Lockhorns.

    Evening local sports anchors were Chuck Dowdle, who moved on to Atlanta, and Hank Goldberg who is a legend here in south Florida.

  • LandrysFedoraLandrysFedora Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @GroceryRackPack said:
    How did you get sports scores during your youth?

    Chicago Sun Times...

    What was your favorite comic ?

    Family Circus...

    Who was your 6pm news sports guy ?

    never really had one...though is 6PM your time or my time???
    :)

    Family Circus was a good one Groce!

  • stevekstevek Posts: 28,989 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I enjoyed many of the comic strips. I guess my favorite was Andy Capp.

    Second would be Rick O'Shay, about a sheriff in a 19th century Western town. It had an ongoing story line, so it was always fun to see the next day what was happening.

  • GroceryRackPackGroceryRackPack Posts: 3,197 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @stevek said:
    I enjoyed many of the comic strips. I guess my favorite was Andy Capp.

    Second would be Rick O'Shay, about a sheriff in a 19th century Western town. It had an ongoing story line, so it was always fun to see the next day what was happening.

    Oh Yeah.... Andy Capp fries sounds Pretty Good right about now... :)

  • stevekstevek Posts: 28,989 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @GroceryRackPack said:

    @stevek said:
    I enjoyed many of the comic strips. I guess my favorite was Andy Capp.

    Second would be Rick O'Shay, about a sheriff in a 19th century Western town. It had an ongoing story line, so it was always fun to see the next day what was happening.

    Oh Yeah.... Andy Capp fries sounds Pretty Good right about now... :)

    >

    Andy Capp is the perfect spokesperson for this product. As his favorite activity is hanging around bars and bookie parlors. Whereby I'd be sure these BBQ Fries are a popular snack food. 😊

  • bgrbgr Posts: 1,687 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I’m a little surprised no one here has said telegraph yet.

  • DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭✭✭

    He had hot fries if not mistaken, those were what I liked.

  • GroceryRackPackGroceryRackPack Posts: 3,197 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Bullsitter said:

    hey ya Bullsitter...
    That's Cool... :)

  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,632 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Boston Herald newspaper

  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 9,102 ✭✭✭✭✭

    2 tin cans attached by a string.

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  • craig44craig44 Posts: 11,230 ✭✭✭✭✭

    i used to get daily box score from the local paper, The Bangor Daily News. I got my weekly updated stats from the weekend USA Today.

    Me from 35 years ago would be shocked at how easily information is acquired today.

    We actually had a physical encyclopedia at the time. talk about a long time ago...

    George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.

  • DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Altanta Journal/Constitution when we got it

  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,632 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I can still hear my father

    "Paul grab me a herald when you go out"

  • pdoidoipdoidoi Posts: 655 ✭✭✭✭

    Cape Cod Standard Times , 1975 changed to Cape Cod Times.

  • Alfonz24Alfonz24 Posts: 3,101 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Box Scores - Sauk Valley Daily Gazette. Most previous day games and the West coast games from the day before.

    Comics - was never really into comics. More of a Penthouse Forum guy.

    Local Sports anchor was probably Don Sharp.

    Don sharp is far right in the picture.

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  • SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 12,113 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Newspaper, radio and TV.

    Looking at the photo posted by Alfonz24 above I would guess that the photo is one from the 1970's.

    All I can say is that the clothing and hairstyles of the 1970's are horrible.

  • stevekstevek Posts: 28,989 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Slightly OT but one of my best gifts ever was my parents giving me the Baseball Encyclopedia. At the time, I didn't even realize such a book existed. I was in seventh heaven. 😊

  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,632 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @stevek said:
    Slightly OT but one of my best gifts ever was my parents giving me the Baseball Encyclopedia. At the time, I didn't even realize such a book existed. I was in seventh heaven. 😊

    Phenomenal piece of literature

    The NFL.o e was just as good. I remember combing through the stats feverishly when I first got my grubby hands on them lol

  • tommyrusty7tommyrusty7 Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭✭

    That was 80 years ago and I have a hard time remembering what happened yesterday but it was probably the Boston Herald!

  • GroceryRackPackGroceryRackPack Posts: 3,197 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @perkdog said:
    I can still hear my father

    "Paul grab me a herald when you go out"

    I'll go with Dad at least once a week when he picks up the paper & lottery tickets; I'm just in the store seeing Fisk...and that's tomorrow's project 1st thing in the morning... :)

  • tommyrusty7tommyrusty7 Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭✭

    The Heralds were only 5 cents back then I believe. Have no idea what they are now but here in Albuquerque they are $2.00.

  • 4Boston4Boston Posts: 318 ✭✭✭

    @Alfonz24 said:
    Box Scores - Sauk Valley Daily Gazette. Most previous day games and the West coast games from the day before.

    Comics - was never really into comics. More of a Penthouse Forum guy.

    Local Sports anchor was probably Don Sharp.

    Don sharp is far right in the picture.

    Yep. 70’s for sure.
    Looks like Match Game with Gene Rayburn.
    Anyone remember the usual guest panelists besides Richard Dawson.

  • 4Boston4Boston Posts: 318 ✭✭✭
    edited April 23, 2024 3:18AM

    @SanctionII said:

    .

    All I can say is that the clothing and hairstyles of the 1970's are horrible.

    Except for Nova on Planet of the Apes.

  • GroceryRackPackGroceryRackPack Posts: 3,197 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @4Boston

    :)

  • 4Boston4Boston Posts: 318 ✭✭✭

    @GroceryRackPack said:
    @4Boston

    :)

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    What was that guys name ?

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  • GroceryRackPackGroceryRackPack Posts: 3,197 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @4Boston said:

    @GroceryRackPack said:
    @4Boston

    :)

    Taylor was Heston.
    What was that guys name ?

    James Franciscus was Brent... :)

  • LandrysFedoraLandrysFedora Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @4Boston said:

    @Alfonz24 said:
    Box Scores - Sauk Valley Daily Gazette. Most previous day games and the West coast games from the day before.

    Comics - was never really into comics. More of a Penthouse Forum guy.

    Local Sports anchor was probably Don Sharp.

    Don sharp is far right in the picture.

    Yep. 70’s for sure.
    Looks like Match Game with Gene Rayburn.
    Anyone remember the usual guest panelists besides Richard Dawson.

    Of course, Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers, Betty White, and Fannie Flagg. What a classic game show!

  • 4Boston4Boston Posts: 318 ✭✭✭

    @tommyrusty7 said:
    The Heralds were only 5 cents back then I believe. Have no idea what they are now but here in Albuquerque they are $2.00.

    Chopped Herring and a Herald.
    Now those were the days.

  • LandrysFedoraLandrysFedora Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @GroceryRackPack said:
    @4Boston

    :)

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  • GroceryRackPackGroceryRackPack Posts: 3,197 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @4Boston said:

    @GroceryRackPack said:
    @4Boston

    :)

    Taylor was Heston.
    What was that guys name ?

    Epic movies. All of them.

  • 4Boston4Boston Posts: 318 ✭✭✭

    @GroceryRackPack said:

    @4Boston said:

    @GroceryRackPack said:
    @4Boston

    :)

    Taylor was Heston.
    What was that guys name ?

    Epic movies. All of them.

    There’s no denying Star Wars 1970’s was incredible theatre.
    In my view the Planet of the Apes series was just as good. Incredibly entertaining.

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