The Dodgers are on the town this weekend. Whereas a lot of you can be watching Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman and outdated buddy Jason Heyward, I’ll be listening. My buddy and colleague Charley Steiner, the radio voice of Dodgers baseball, might be within the guests’ radio sales space, relaying the motion to the oldsters in L.A. and people who hear on the MLB app.
Charley is likely one of the nice baseball radio play-by-play abilities round. He shares the sales space with one other Chicago outdated buddy, Rick Monday, they usually do a stellar job. Don’t get me incorrect, I really like watching a recreation on tv and listening to their descriptions, however baseball was made for radio, way over another sport.
Charley took over the mic from baseball’s biggest announcer, Vin Scully. “Once I received sufficiently old to essentially categorical myself, I knew that it was the radio that basically introduced me into craving to do baseball,” Scully stated.
The good Al Michaels described how I’ve lived my very own life since I used to be a child: “When you’re listening to a recreation on the radio, you’ll be able to dream together with the sport.” “Radio means freedom,” Scully stated. “You’ve gotten the radio on, and you’ll paint the storage. With tv, it’s a dedication. Radio is your affiliate — you will have it with you, and also you’re listening when you’re doing one thing else.”
Immediately’s quiz is about nice sports activities announcers, each radio and TV, so you recognize what to do: Have enjoyable and be taught lots.
1. When Kirk Gibson hit a really surprising walk-off homer in opposition to Dennis Eckersley in Recreation 1 of the 1988 World Collection, he did one thing that doubtless won’t ever occur once more: He was at-bat for near 10 minutes. The TV name was good as a result of it appeared like a radio name. “In a 12 months that has been so inconceivable, the not possible has occurred!” Who spoke that magic?
a. Al Michaels
b. Vin Scully
c. Pink Barber
d. Harry Kalas
2. Which U.S. president stated, “I watch quite a lot of baseball on the radio”?
a. Ronald Reagan
b. Gerald Ford
c. Donald Trump
d. John F. Kennedy
3. Which U.S. president broadcast Cubs video games on Des Moines radio station WHO?
a. Ronald Reagan
b. Donald Trump
c. George H.W. Bush
d. Dwight Eisenhower
4. Whose home-run name was, “You may put it on the board . . . sure!”?
a. Ken “Hawk” Harrelson
b. Harry Caray
c. Tom Cheek
d. Pat Hughes
5. When Ozzie Smith stepped to the plate within the backside of the ninth inning in Recreation 5 of the Nationwide League Championship Collection, Dodgers pitcher Tom Niedenfuer tried to sneak a fastball by him, and Smith turned on the pitch, lifting it over the right-field wall at Busch Stadium to provide the Cardinals a 3-2 win. Which broadcaster succinctly declared, “Go loopy, of us. Go loopy!”
a. Joe Buck
b. Jack Buck
c. Mike Shannon
d. Tim McCarver
6. When Mets pitcher Bartolo Colon socked his first profession residence run in Might 2016 in opposition to the Padres, who made this brilliantly humorous name? “Colon, on the lookout for his first hit of the 12 months. He drives one, deep left area, again goes Upton, again close to the wall, it’s outta right here! Bartolo has carried out it! The not possible has occurred!”
a. Ralph Kiner
b. Gary Cohen
c. Lindsay Nelson
d. Howie Rose
7. Two announcers had been well-known for utilizing the phrase “Holy Cow!” Who’re they?
a. Harry Carey
b. Harry Kalas
c. Phil Rizzuto
d. Elmer Borden
8. Which baseball play-by-play announcer appeared on “The Tonight Present Starring Johnny Carson” greater than 60 occasions?
a. George Burns
b. Bob Uecker
c. Dick Enberg
d. Jon Miller
9. One in all my favourite announcers, Steve Stone, had two stints with the White Sox, pitched three seasons with the Cubs and have become a 20-game winner with the Orioles in 1980, when he received the American League Cy Younger Award. He as soon as was traded for one more nice announcer and allowed the one residence run within the 3,754 plate appearances of one more nice announcer. Title these two different announcers.
a. Duane Kuiper
b. Ron Santo
c. Keith Hernandez
d. Joe Garagiola
I hope you had as a lot enjoyable as I did this week. And if you happen to occurred to go 9-for-9, simply think about Mel Allen exclaiming, “How about that?!” When you see Charley Steiner at Wrigley or round Chicago, inform him you’re associates with Invoice Chuck, the Quizmaster.
ANSWERS
1. The play was legendary, and so was Vin Scully’s name.
2. President Gerald Ford stated it, and he wasn’t incorrect.
3. Ronald Reagan recreated video games for his listeners. He had the presence of thoughts to lengthen an at-bat with countless foul balls till his Western Union feed resumed.
4. “He gone!” Hawk Harrelson is gone (retired) however not forgotten.
5. That good name was made by Jack Buck
6. Gary Cohen referred to as Large Horny’s homer with an homage to the decision from query No. 1.
7. Harry Caray, the Corridor of Fame broadcaster, developed the phrase to verify he didn’t utter expletives on the air. On Oct. 1, 1961: “Fastball. Hit deep to proper. This might be it. Holy cow! No. 61 for Roger Maris!” That was Phil Rizzuto, and “Holy cow!” was one among his signature phrases, as properly.
8. It was Mr. Baseball, Bob Uecker, who stated, “Once I got here as much as bat with three males on and two outs within the ninth, I regarded within the different workforce’s dugout, they usually had been already in avenue garments.” Uke stated on “The Tonight Present,” “Individuals don’t know this, however I helped the Cardinals win the pennant. I got here down with hepatitis. The coach injected me with it.”
9. Duane Kuiper was a second baseman for the Cleveland Indians and San Francisco Giants and hit just one homer in his big-league profession. Tune in someday and take heed to him do his work on Giants broadcasts. On Dec. 11, 1973, Ron Santo, who turned a Cubs radio analyst, was traded by the Cubs to the White Sox for Ken Frailing, Steve Swisher and Steve Stone.