Major League Baseball on the radio

Station WRUF microphone belonging to Red Barber - B-4-94
Wikipedia - "Major League Baseball on the radio has been a tradition for almost 80 years, and still exists today. Baseball was one of the first sports to be broadcast in the United States. Every team in Major League Baseball has a flagship station, and baseball is also broadcast on national radio. ... During the Golden Age of Radio, television sports broadcasting was in its infancy, and radio was still the main form of broadcasting baseball. Many notable broadcasters, such as Mel Allen, Red Barber, Harry Caray, Russ Hodges, Ernie Harwell, and Vin Scully, started in this period. However, broadcasting still did not look like the way it does today—recreations of games based on telegrams, the original means of broadcasting, were still widely used. ... However, as the Golden Era wound down, radio was gradually eclipsed by television. The World Series continued to be broadcast on the radio, with NBC Radio covering the Series from 1960–1975, and CBS Radio from 1976–1997. However, after Mutual's Game of the Day ended in 1960 there would not be regular-season baseball broadcast nationally on the radio until 1985, when CBS Radio started a Game of the Week..."
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How Radio Changed Baseball Fandom Forever (Video)
SABR: Only the Game Was Real: The Aesthetics and Significance of Re-created Baseball Broadcasting
SABR: Al Helfer and the Game of the Day
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Voices of the Game
YouTube: Baseball - 1950's 27 videos, Classic Baseball on the Radio

1940's KXOK radio, Harry Caray on right, Jack Buck on Left.