I had a small yellow AM radio no bigger than a small paper back book. I loved that little piece of technology. When I was supposed to be asleep I would often listen to Bob Lamey broadcasting late night Pacers games. The best were the western swing games as you'd start the game, but never make it to halftime. It was the perfect nightime story, it's just what a young sports crazed kid needed. I remember listening to the 1984 IU/North Carolina NCAA game (Jordan vs Dakich). Don't worry I didn't fall asleep during that contest. I hated my mom for not allowing me to watch it live (it was a thursday school night). I remember Sunday nights falling asleep to Dr. Demento and the Dr. Ruth show. Dr. Ruth at the time was kind of my only sex ed conversation. This old Jewish woman with an incredibe accent and childlike laugh talking about sex (which at the time I assumed was inapropriate for me) was the best thing on radio. As a young kid your ears were telling you this was some form of pornography. I was always fascinated with the amount of different channels you could pick up. As a kid I think I appreciated that radio more than the first Apple IIe computer we brought into the house.
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I used to get home from school, get chores and homework done before dinner. Eat, then go to bed and get up at 11 so I could watch the NBA playoffs on tape delay after the local news was over. That was the deal I made with my parents.
When the atmosphere was just right some nights, I could get an AM station out of San Antonio and listen to Spurs games when they had Gervin and Gilmore.
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The first transistor radio, the first bicycle, the first black and white portable in your room, the first Tandy pong game to hook up to that TV, the first learner permit/PT job/car etc. All rites of passage for a kid that opened up the world to them with more and more freedom.
I remember saving up my hard earned money as a kid, well before cable and ESPN (much less the internet), to buy Street and Smith, Sporting News, Sports Illustrated preview and prediction publications that would come out ahead of the NFL and NCAA FB and BB seasons. Calling the Star News sports desk number to get scores on games instead of waiting for the news on TV or the paper the next morning.
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@hooky Where were you living to receive that San Antonio broadcast? I def could pull channels from Chicago, but don't remember anything further away.
@all4you I used to love buying those preview magazines. I remember walking into bookstores and thumbing through each one to decide if I wanted to buy it or not. Generally I stuck to the ones that gave IU a positive outlook.
@hooky Where were you living to receive that San Antonio broadcast? I def could pull channels from Chicago, but don't remember anything further away.
North Central Indiana, about 30 minutes north of Kokomo. It had to be late at night and the Ionosphere had to be just right to bounce the signal. It didn't happen often, but when it did, there would be 3 or 4 of us talking about the game the next day at school. I think all my buddies had this Gervin poster.
Diligence is the mother of good luck. Plough deep while sluggards sleep and you shall have corn to sell and keep. Work as if you were to live 100 years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow. All progress springs from work. Work has laid the foundation of every fortune in America. – Benjamin Franklin
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@hooky Where were you living to receive that San Antonio broadcast? I def could pull channels from Chicago, but don't remember anything further away.
When I was young, my dad and I listened to Vikings games on the AM out of Minneapolis in the garage in Fort Wayne. Wasn't loud or clear, but with the right weather, we could hear it without the need to be mouse quiet.
Transistor radio. Listening to Cardinals game called by Harry Carey and Jack Buck. And then dialing across the radio listening to stations from Chicago, Cleveland, New Orleans. The radio made the world bigger, and smaller, at the same time. The idea I was sharing a song with people in faraway places was fascinating.
@eppy99 My Dad and I would stay up on Friday nights to watch Sammy Terry on the old Channel 4. Dad passed away last yr but watching those old b movies which were scary on a Friday night were just precious times.
While I regarded God as a tyrant I thought my sin a trifle; But when I knew Him to be my Father, then I mourned that I could ever have kicked against Him. When I thought God was hard, I found it easy to sin; but when I found God so kind, so good, so overflowing with compassion, I smote upon my breast to think that I could ever have rebelled against One who loved me so, and sought my good.” C. H. Spurgeon
Remember when world series games were played in the afternoon, even on weekdays?
For one of the Big Red Machine world series in the 70s I took my transistor radio to school, with earbuds (new at the time) and tried to look like I was paying attention to the teacher while I was really listening to the radio. Of course I got busted. I escaped a paddling, though, which was common at the time.
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Diligence is the mother of good luck. Plough deep while sluggards sleep and you shall have corn to sell and keep. Work as if you were to live 100 years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow. All progress springs from work. Work has laid the foundation of every fortune in America. – Benjamin Franklin
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Transistor radio. Listening to Cardinals game called by Harry Carey and Jack Buck. And then dialing across the radio listening to stations from Chicago, Cleveland, New Orleans. The radio made the world bigger, and smaller, at the same time. The idea I was sharing a song with people in faraway places was fascinating.
For me it was Joe Nuxhall on 700WLW. I remember at one quarter end in the early 90s driving from Indy to Traverse City and back to get an agreement signed. I drove back that night and listened to the Reds all the from TC to somewhere south of S Bend when the game was over. You can/could pick up WLW all the way up in Northern Wisconsin without much of a problem. Nothing quite like a long drive and a baseball game on the radio.
Diligence is the mother of good luck. Plough deep while sluggards sleep and you shall have corn to sell and keep. Work as if you were to live 100 years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow. All progress springs from work. Work has laid the foundation of every fortune in America. – Benjamin Franklin
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Yeah, I listened to those two every night. On some nights I had to go outside by the tomato plants to get the station to come in. The first time I heard Fish when he first came on to the IU network, about 1973? I thought he sounded like a young Harry Carey.Transistor radio. Listening to Cardinals game called by Harry Carey and Jack Buck. And then dialing across the radio listening to stations from Chicago, Cleveland, New Orleans. The radio made the world bigger, and smaller, at the same time. The idea I was sharing a song with people in faraway places was fascinating.
This thread should be renamed Super '70s Sports:
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@bradstevens Seeing those coffee cups reminds me of of those old anodized aluminum pitcher and tumbler sets from when I was a kid.
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