>>>Agreed. Some moments are visually indelible -- Carlton Fisk trying to wave that home run fair in the 1975 World Series springs to mind -- but in most cases baseball is better on the radio. The cadences are naturally compatible. There are natural dead spots in the action, it's not nonstop like so much of modern culture, so you have to be adept to keep the listener's interest without groveling for it. An admirable art.
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>>I always felt that radio was better, but since we've had cable and I watch 100 games or so a year, I've learned so much more than I even knew about baseball.
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>>OTOH, there's nothing else in the world that sounds like a baseball game on the radio. As you turn the dial (an increasingly obsolete art and phrase), when you get to baseball, you know it. You don't have to hear a word from the announcer to know it's a baseball game.
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>How true. The sound of the crowd is almost unmistakable.


Have you seen "Bull Durham"? Great flick. One of the funniest bits is about the radio announcers simulating ballpark sounds during away games, which they were being told about by telephone. (Don't laugh; Ronald Reagan had that job at one point). They could even simulate the crack of the bat.