Comments on: Baseball 2018: But Some of Us Still Remember When…. http://localhost:8080/baseball-remember-old-traditions Senior Fellow, Hillsdale College Churchill Project, Writer and Historian Tue, 12 Mar 2024 18:47:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Richard Langworth http://localhost:8080/baseball-remember-old-traditions#comment-18480 Fri, 18 May 2018 14:19:51 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=6693#comment-18480 In reply to Richard Munro.

Alanna is sharp. ESPN’s announcers are unlistenable. I do the same thing, turn off the audio and listen to Charlie Slowes broadcasting the Nats games. I mean the Washington Senators. Problem is, ESPN often blacks out the MLB At Bat broadcasts, and I don’t subscribe to ESPN.

]]> By: Richard Munro http://localhost:8080/baseball-remember-old-traditions#comment-18472 Fri, 18 May 2018 00:08:54 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=6693#comment-18472 Great baseball memories. I would like to say “ball girls” like Alanna Rizzo of the Dodgers are really knowledgeable about baseball, the players and the rules. She also speaks fluent Spanish. She is better than many ESPN announcers who seem to know nothing and who seem, unlike Scully, never to read or prepare for a game. Most are very poor, D+ at best. Whenever possible I listen to the radio and turn them off. Via MLB at bat I usually have two or three choices, Almost always 100% better than ESPN clowns.

]]> By: Richard Langworth http://localhost:8080/baseball-remember-old-traditions#comment-18262 Sat, 21 Apr 2018 15:44:28 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=6693#comment-18262 In reply to Robert Pettengill.

He wasn’t a follower of team sports, though he loved playing one (polo). But he did have a few stray quips about baseball, which I will post herein shortly. In the meantime, for amusement, I offer Question Time, House of Commons, 21 July 1952…

Mr. Fenner Brockway (Lab.) asked: “Is [the Prime Minister] aware that…the Iver Heath Conservative Party Association held a fete to raise money for party purposes to which it invited American Service baseball teams to participate for a ‘Winston Churchill’ trophy…and had a note from him saying he was honoured that his name was linked to the trophy?”

WSC: “I read in the Daily Worker some account of this. I had not, I agree, fully realized the political implications that might attach to the matter, and in so far as I have erred I express my regret.” [Laughter.]

]]> By: Robert Pettengill http://localhost:8080/baseball-remember-old-traditions#comment-18261 Sat, 21 Apr 2018 14:07:35 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=6693#comment-18261 What? No quote from The Great Man? Churchill must have said something about the great American pastime.

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