Band of Neighbors

June 30, 2003 · James W. Haley Jr., Magazine, Books and Arts

The Bedford Boys

Last in the American League

June 18, 2001 · James W. Haley Jr., Magazine, Books and Arts

FOR BASEBALL GAMES PLAYED IN DISTANT CITIES in the 1930s and 1940s, local baseball announcers would read the telegraph wire to find out what had happened on each play, add canned applause and the recorded sound of a bat, and broadcast games as if they were really watching the players. Arch…