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  • Crack of the Bat: A History of Baseball on the Radio
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Crack of the Bat: A History of Baseball on the Radio Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

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Radio has brought the sounds of baseball into homes for almost 100 years, helping baseball emerge from the 1919 Black Sox scandal into the glorious World Series of the 1920s. The medium gave fans around the country aural access to the first All-Star Game, Lou Gehrig’s farewell speech, and Bobby Thomson’s “Shot Heard ’Round the World.” Red Barber, Vin Scully, Harry Caray, Ernie Harwell, Bob Uecker, and dozens of other beloved announcers helped cement the love affair between radio and the national pastime.

Crack of the Bat takes listeners from the 1920s to the present, examining the role of baseball in the development of the radio industry and the complex coevolution of their relationship.

Despite cable television’s ubiquity, live video streaming, and social media, radio remains an important medium through which fans engage with their teams. The evolving relationship between baseball and radio intersects with topics as varied as the 20-year battle among owners to control radio, the development of sports as a valuable media product, and the impact of competing technologies on the broadcast medium.

The book is published by University of Nebraska Press. The audiobook was published by University Press Audiobooks.

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  1. Listening Length
    10 hours and 17 minutes
  2. Author
    James R. Walker
  3. Narrator
    Joseph Bevilacqua
  4. Audible release date
    Sept. 20 2018
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    University Press Audiobooks
  7. ASIN
    B07HHHZQKZ
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
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Listening Length 10 hours and 17 minutes
Author James R. Walker
Narrator Joseph Bevilacqua
Audible.ca Release Date September 20 2018
Publisher University Press Audiobooks
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B07HHHZQKZ
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  • Alan Barrett
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 19, 2018
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    Very interesting read.
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  • Kindle Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent History of Baseball on the Radio
    Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2017
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    This is a good history of baseball on the radio. It takes you from the very beginnings when it was mostly re-creations to the present Internet age. It also takes a detailed look at how owners resisted using radio at first because they thought attendance at games would suffer. But gradually, over time, they came around to thinking differently. It took the east coast teams longer but they eventually had all games on the radio. This book also gave good advice for anyone who may want to be a baseball broadcaster. What they should do and how to go about each broadcast. This book also gives brief sketches of some of the greats in the baseball broadcasting field. They start from the beginning with Harold Arlin all the way to present day broadcasters of Pat Hughes and Charley Steiner. I am of the baby boomer age and am probably of the last generation that cut their teeth on baseball by listening to broadcasts on the radio. I will always appreciate the radio broadcasts of games. These broadcasters come into your home every day for the six months and become like friends even though you do not know them personally. This book is a treasure for someone like myself
    who appreciates this aspect of baseball as much as any of part of the game.
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  • fbisagift
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great read on early radio history
    Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2019
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    Crack of the Bat: A History of Baseball on the Radio is a great read on early radio history and I've read quite a few books on the topic. Definitely gives you all the details of how baseball and radio evolved together and the importance of the sport to the success of early radio. Also, love to buy from Powells Chicago!
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  • Jon W
    5.0 out of 5 stars One For The Ages
    Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2016
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    What I like about this book is Grantland Rice did live broadcasting from the Polo Grounds using a stadium phone and using the radio station WJZ in Newark and to me that takes considerable effort and that is over a 300 mile area. What amazing technology that was back in 1922.
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