Last Week In Baseball

[Wufpacker]

Yes, I’m fully aware that this title is merely a thinly veiled rip-off. Apologies to Mel “How about that?” Allen. At least I didn’t steal his theme mu
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[wufpup76]

Thanks so much for this update.

[VaWolf82]

This Week in Baseball was always one of my favorites. Nice homage and segue into the State wrap-up.

Being tied up with BB, I appreciate the update.

[Mel Allen] completed law school and passed the Alabama bar exam. But during a Christmas vacation in 1936 with friends in New York, he stopped, on a lark, at CBS for an audition and was hired early the next year as a $45-a-week announcer, understudying Mr. Husing in sports and Robert Trout in news.

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/17/sports/mel-allen-is-dead-at-83-golden-voice-of-yankees.html

[TheCOWDOG]

[Wufpacker]

VaWolf82 wrote:

This Week in Baseball was always one of my favorites.

Ditto for me. As a kid, back when we had 6 or 8 total TV channels (and zero dedicated sports channels of course), a week in the summertime without watching TWIB was a rarity.

…and ‘Dog, a bit of a coincidence as I almost posted this vid in the entry.

[Wufpacker]

FWIW, win streak up to 7 straight now with last night’s road victory over Charlotte, 10-6.

Bring on the ‘Noles.

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