[nfbwatlk] maybe of more interest to CFB members: rare 1958 Vancouver baseball broadcast

[Mary ellen]

Thanks, Dean.  I'll happily listen.  Certainly tonight's game between the
Tigers and Yankees was less than cheery.  I'll be most interested to know if
the strike zone was bigger than it is now.  I can remember pitches letter
high being called strikes.  Nowadays, if the ball comes in much higher than
the belt buckle, it's a ball.  No wonder counts go higher and more pitches
are thrown in an average game.  Again, thanks for the recording.

Mary Ellen 

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Subject: [nfbwatlk] maybe of more interest to CFB members: rare 1958
Vancouver baseball broadcast

Long-time Toronto sportscaster Bill Stephenson died not long ago.  He
started out in Vancouver in the 50's.  I used to love to listen to him when
I could on CKWX.  Here is a priceless 1958 broadcast between the Pacific
Coast League Vancouver Mounties and the Sacramento Solons from Capilano
Stadium, with Stevenson broadcasting and the very young Jim Robson reading
commercials for the team's one sponsor.  The only sad thing about this is
that there isn't more of it, but it's a delight as is.  You pick up fun
tidbits of the difference in life and baseball between then and now.

http://redrobinson.com/blog/?p=4318

Dean


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