Kids, ask your grandparents.
Sadly, my sister-in-law, Ruth, passed away unexpectedly a few weeks ago. My wife visited her partner and came back with some family mementos including an old transistor radio like this.
It reminded me that this was the way many young people listened to games at night when they were supposed to be sleeping, using an ear-piece or hiding the radio under their pillow.
Recently, David Sampson — who according to many was one of those responsible for the death of the Montreal Expos — said, “We don’t need baseball on radio anymore. The only reason we have baseball on radio is so people can feel better about what baseball means to them.”
And what, exactly, is wrong with that?
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