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Liberty Broadcasting System
The Liberty Broadcasting System was a U.S. radio network of the late 1940s and early 1950s founded by Gordon McLendon, which mainly broadcast live recreations of Major League Baseball games, by following the action via Western Union ticker reports. The sound effects were very realistic, and many listeners were not aware the broadcasters were not announcing the action live. At that time some major league teams and almost all minor league baseball clubs used recreations of their road games as an economy measure. Availability Founded in 1948, the network was mainly in Texas and the southwest but did have 9 affiliates in Oregon, an outlet in Los Angeles, Seattle, and as of Sept. 29, 1950, WHAV in Haverhill, Massachusetts. At one time, it had about 500 radio stations on the line, being second in size only to the Mutual Broadcasting System. Major League Baseball It carried various types of programs (for instance, late night band remotes were another feature carried by Liberty) but McLe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Network
There are two types of radio network currently in use around the world: the one-to-many (simplex communication) broadcast network commonly used for public information and mass-media entertainment, and the two-way radio ( duplex communication) type used more commonly for public safety and public services such as police, fire, taxicabs, and delivery services. Cell phones are able to send and receive simultaneously by using two different frequencies at the same time. Many of the same components and much of the same basic technology applies to all three. The two-way type of radio network shares many of the same technologies and components as the broadcast-type radio network but is generally set up with fixed broadcast points (transmitters) with co-located receivers and mobile receivers/transmitters or transceivers. In this way both the fixed and mobile radio units can communicate with each other over broad geographic regions ranging in size from small single cities to entire states/prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russ Hodges
Russell Pleasant Hodges (June 18, 1910 – April 19, 1971) was an American sportscaster who did play-by-play for several baseball teams, most notably the New York Giants / San Francisco Giants. He is perhaps best remembered for his call of Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard 'Round the World"—''The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!'' Early career Born in Dayton, Tennessee, Hodges began his broadcasting career in 1934. He was sports editor of WBT, Charlotte, North Carolina until October 1941, when he moved full-time to WOL in Washington, D.C., where he had already been doing play-by-play for the Washington Redskins. He worked for the Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Washington Senators, and Cincinnati Reds before landing in New York City with the New York Yankees and New York Giants, who during much of the 1940s only broadcast home games and shared the same radio team — lead announcer Mel Allen and No. 2 man Hodges. From April 14, 1948 to April 22, 1949, Hodges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Football League
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada and the highest professional level of American football in the world. Each NFL season begins with a three-week preseason in August, followed by the 18-week regular season which runs from early September to early January, with each team playing 17 games and having one bye week In sport, a bye is the preferential status of a player or team that is automatically advanced to the next round of a tournament, without having to play an opponent in an early round. In knockout (elimination) tournaments they can be granted eit .... Following the conclusion of the regular season, seven teams from each conference (four division winners and three wild card teams) advance to the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wes Wise
Wes Wise (November 25, 1928 – December 9, 2022) was an American journalist and politician who served from 1971 to 1976 as a three-term mayor of Dallas, Texas. Early life and TV news career Wise was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, on November 25, 1928. Wise dropped out of high school at the age of fifteen upon the death of his father and begin work at a local radio station in Monroe, Louisiana. Although Wise earned a diploma by passing the high school equivalency test, he never graduated from college. He served in the United States Army for two years. In the 1940s and 1950s, Wise was a play-by-play sports announcer for Gordon McLendon's Liberty Broadcasting System radio network, which mainly broadcast live recreations of Major League Baseball games by means of broadcasters like Wise following the action via Western Union ticker tape reports, and then relaying the plays to the listening audience in a more lively style that included studio sound effects meant to simulate the ball ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1952 In Baseball
Champions Major League Baseball *World Series: New York Yankees over Brooklyn Dodgers (4–3) *All-Star Game, July 8 at Shibe Park: National League, 3–2 (5 innings) Other champions *All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: South Bend Blue Sox *College World Series: Holy Cross *Japan Series: Yomiuri Giants over Nankai Hawks (4–2) *Little League World Series: Norwalk National, Norwalk, Connecticut Winter Leagues * 1952 Caribbean Series: Senadores de San Juan *Cuban League: Leones del Habana * Dominican Republic League: Águilas Cibaeñas *Mexican Pacific League: Tacuarineros de Culiacán * Panamanian League: Carta Vieja Yankees *Puerto Rican League: Senadores de San Juan *Venezuelan League: Cervecería Caracas Awards and honors *Baseball Hall of Fame **Harry Heilmann **Paul Waner *MLB Most Valuable Player Award **Bobby Shantz, Philadelphia Athletics, P ** Hank Sauer, Chicago Cubs, OF *MLB Rookie of the Year Award ** Harry Byrd, Philadelphia Athletics, P **Joe Black ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1949 In Baseball
Champions Major League Baseball *World Series: New York Yankees over Brooklyn Dodgers (4-1) *All-Star Game, July 12 at Ebbets Field: American League, 11-7 Caribbean leagues *Cuba : Alacranes del Almendares *Panama : Spur Cola Colonites *Puerto Rico : Indios de Mayagüez *Venezuela : Cervecería Caracas. Caribbean World Series *Cuba : Alacranes del Almendares Other champions *All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: Rockford Peaches *College World Series: Texas *Little League World Series: Hammonton, New Jersey * Negro League Baseball All-Star Game : East, 4–0 Winter Leagues *1949 Caribbean Series: Alacranes del Almendares *Cuban League: Alacranes del Almendares *Mexican Pacific League: Tacuarineros de Culiacán * Panamanian League: Spur Cola Colonites * Puerto Rican League: Indios de Mayagüez *Venezuelan League: Cervecería Caracas Awards and honors *Baseball Hall of Fame **Mordecai Brown **Charlie Gehringer **Kid Nichols *Most Valuable Player **Ted Willi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 In Baseball
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 15 – In a court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment. * January 20 – Winter of Terror: Avalanches in the Alps kill 240 and bury 45,000 for a time, in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. * January 21 – Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea erupts catastrophically, killing nearly 3,000 people and causing great devastation in Oro Province. * January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of his children's novel '' Journey Through the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950 In Baseball
Champions Major League Baseball *World Series: New York Yankees over Philadelphia Phillies (4-0) *All-Star Game, July 11 at Comiskey Park: National League, 4-3 (14 innings) Other champions * All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: Rockford Peaches *Amateur World Series: Cuba *College World Series: Texas *First Japan Series: Mainichi Orions over Shochiku Robins (4-2) *Little League World Series: North Austin Lions, Austin, Texas * Negro League Baseball All-Star Game: West, 5-3 Winter Leagues *1950 Caribbean Series: Carta Vieja Yankees *Cuban League: Alacranes del Almendares *Mexican Pacific League: Tacuarineros de Culiacán * Panamanian League: Carta Vieja Yankees *Puerto Rican League: Criollos de Caguas *Venezuelan League: Navegantes del Magallanes Awards and honors *MLB Most Valuable Player Award ** AL Phil Rizzuto, New York Yankees, SS ** NL Jim Konstanty, Philadelphia Phillies, P *MLB Rookie of the Year Award **Walt Dropo, Boston Red Sox, 1B **Sam Jethroe, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bud Blattner
Robert Garnett "Buddy" Blattner (February 8, 1920 – September 4, 2009), was an American table tennis and professional baseball player. He played five seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), primarily for the New York Giants. After his retirement as a player, he became a radio and television sportscaster. Sports career Table tennis Blattner played table tennis in his youth, winning the gold medal in the men's doubles with James McClure at the 1936 World Table Tennis Championships. The following year he won double gold at the 1937 World Table Tennis Championships in the men's team event and in the men's doubles with McClure. Baseball A graduate of Beaumont High School in St. Louis, Blattner started his Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the St. Louis Cardinals, making his big league debut in the 1942 season. Following a stint in the U.S. Navy, Blattner played for the New York Giants (1946–48) and Philadelphia Phillies (1949); he played primarily as a second base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midwestern United States
The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau (also known as "Region 2"). It occupies the northern central part of the United States. It was officially named the North Central Region by the Census Bureau until 1984. It is between the Northeastern United States and the Western United States, with Canada to the north and the Southern United States to the south. The Census Bureau's definition consists of 12 states in the north central United States: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. The region generally lies on the broad Interior Plain between the states occupying the Appalachian Mountain range and the states occupying the Rocky Mountain range. Major rivers in the region include, from east to west, the Ohio River, the Upper Mississippi River, and the Missouri River. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northeastern United States
The Northeastern United States, also referred to as the Northeast, the East Coast, or the American Northeast, is a geographic region of the United States. It is located on the Atlantic coast of North America, with Canada to its north, the Southern United States to its south, and the Midwestern United States to its west. The Northeast is one of the four regions defined by the U.S. Census Bureau for the collection and analysis of statistics. The region is usually defined as including nine U.S. states: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The U.S. Census Bureau–defined region of the Northeastern United States has a total area of with of that being land mass, making it the smallest region of the United States by both land mass and total area. The Northeastern region is the nation's most economically developed, densely populated, and culturally diverse region. Of the nation's four census regions, the No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minor League
Minor leagues are professional sports leagues which are not regarded as the premier leagues in those sports. Minor league teams tend to play in smaller, less elaborate venues, often competing in smaller cities/markets. This term is used in North America with regard to several organizations competing in various sports. They generally have lesser fan bases, much smaller revenues and salaries, and are used to develop players for bigger leagues. The minor league concept is a manifestation of the franchise system used in North American sports, whereby the group of major league teams in each sport is fixed for long periods between expansions or other adjustments, which only take place with the consent of the major league owners. In Europe, and many other parts of the world, association football(Soccer), basketball, american football, baseball, handball,hockey etc leagues have many divisions below the ''top-flight level'' as part of the football pyramid. In other parts of the worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
