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Why I will never give baseball up

tommyrusty7tommyrusty7 Posts: 2,050 ✭✭✭✭

I have been listening to and watching baseball since my father and I used to sit around the radio and listen to Red Sox games on teletype reports where when someone got a hit or made an out it would come in to the radio station for away games and regular radio were live broadcasts. I remember Williams, Pesky , both Demagio's ,Mantle and many more playing in Fenway park. Now I get to watch all the games on a 75 inch big screen TV. How could I possibly give that up. Changes have been made over the years but every thing has changed over the last 85 years.

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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,845 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Awesome!!!

    Keep on talking Red Sox buddy, it's good stuff!

  • JoeBanzaiJoeBanzai Posts: 11,885 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A true fan!

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  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 9,317 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like watching sports on the big screen. Only drawback is now the commercials are just as big.👇

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  • tommyrusty7tommyrusty7 Posts: 2,050 ✭✭✭✭

    Those are for bathroom trips and refrigerator raids. If at the stadium you would have to wait in line and miss part of the game anyway so more benefits to being at home as you will see the whole game and your wallet will not get a hit.

  • tommyrusty7tommyrusty7 Posts: 2,050 ✭✭✭✭

    @perkdog said:
    Awesome!!!

    Keep on talking Red Sox buddy, it's good stuff!

    It's for stuff like last nights game winning it in the 10th inning with players just traded for at the trade deadline contributing to the win.
    It's for the wall in left field where the winning run bounced off.
    Its for all the great players that have played in front of it like Yaz, Rice and Ramirez.
    Its for my father who was born in 1902 not having seen the Sox win a World Series .
    Its for great players that were also War Heroes like Ted Williams.
    Its for all the players great and not so great that have played for the Boston Red Sox!

  • MCMLVToppsMCMLVTopps Posts: 4,860 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Soliloquy comes to mind.

  • LandrysFedoraLandrysFedora Posts: 2,202 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @tommyrusty7 said:
    I have been listening to and watching baseball since my father and I used to sit around the radio and listen to Red Sox games on teletype reports where when someone got a hit or made an out it would come in to the radio station for away games and regular radio were live broadcasts. I remember Williams, Pesky , both Demagio's ,Mantle and many more playing in Fenway park. Now I get to watch all the games on a 75 inch big screen TV. How could I possibly give that up. Changes have been made over the years but every thing has changed over the last 85 years.

    That sounds like such an awesome memory! Thank you for sharing.

  • tommyrusty7tommyrusty7 Posts: 2,050 ✭✭✭✭
    edited August 1, 2024 9:14PM

    OH, I remember much more. How about Braves field with the train track and the year the Braves chant was Sphan Sain and pray for rain because that's all they had that was a decent player!

  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,845 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2, 2024 5:32AM

    @tommyrusty7 said:
    OH, I remember much more. How about Braves field with the train track and the year the Braves chant was Sphan Sain and pray for rain because that's all they had that was a decent player!

    You are so fortunate to have seen the Golden Age of MLB!!!

  • tommyrusty7tommyrusty7 Posts: 2,050 ✭✭✭✭

    Most of it was on the radio in the early years as my father could not afford the trips to Boston every week from Mansfield. The seats were cheap though and once I got out of the Marines in 1960 I saw many more games but the Sox sucked big time back then but there were some bright spots here & there.

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