Radio Games Live On (Mostly)

“A broadcaster paints pictures on the minds of listeners.” — Vin Scully

Just a reminder—if you haven’t noticed buried in the feed—I post a full Game of the Week using Substack’s podcast feature. You can listen directly on Substack, or find it on Spotify. There’s no intro, no narration—just the full original broadcast of a baseball game from the past, the way it sounded when it first aired.

What continues to pull me in is how much of baseball’s radio history lives in these old games—and how much of it we’ve lost.

Most stations didn’t archive broadcasts. Tapes were reused, games were aired once and then erased, as if no one would ever want to hear them again. The idea of preserving them just wasn’t part of the workflow. Unless someone at home recorded the broadcast—often off a speaker using a microphone—there’s a good chance it vanished. Entire seasons, entire voices, entire careers drifted off the dial and into memory.

That’s part of why I post these. It’s also why I’ve been digging deep lately—reaching out to people who might have old recordings, whether the…