In Breaking Walls Episode 78, in honor of Major League’s Baseball’s opening day, we present stories, recollections, and in-game sounds from some of baseball’s most memorable moments and people.

Highlights:

• Hear what Jackie Robinson’s Major League Baseball debut on April 15th, 1947 at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, NY sounded like

• NY Daily News Columnist Ben Gross recalls the first World Series radio broadcast on WJZ in 1921

• Dizzy Dean and the famed Gas House Gang’s 1930s rivalry with the New York Giants

• Red Barber, Mel Allen and the growth of baseball’s radio broadcasting industry

• Hear Babe Ruth on the radio

• Hear Lou Gehrig’s farewell speech from July 4th, 1939

• Sounds from the 1939 World Series

• Who did Joe McCarthy think was better, Joe Dimaggio or Ted Williams?

• Sounds from the New York Yankees, New York Giants, and Brooklyn Dodgers

• Bing Crosby calls a Yankee game with Mel Allen

• How a dispute between Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley and NYC Park’s Commissioner Robert Moses caused both the Dodgers and Giants to move to California in 1957

• Jackie Robinson interviews Satchel Paige in 1960

• Phil Rizzuto calls Roger Maris’ 61st home run on October 1, 1961

• Jackie Robinson’s last public appearance in 1972

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The reading material for today’s episode was:

• The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio by John Dunning

• and countless reference websites for the history of Baseball

Music featured in today’s Episode Included:

• Did you See Jackie Robinson Hit that Ball? By Woodrow Buddy Johnson & Count Basie

• Swing into Spring by Benny Goodman

• There Used to be A Ballpark by Frank Sinatra

• Wanted by Perry Como

• The First Baseball Game by Nat King Cole

A Special Thank you to:

Christian Neuhaus

Rebecca Shield

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