Thanks to Bob R for this link to Lindsey Nelson-Bob Murphy and Ralph Kiner with some play by play and happy recaps. Click here for some vintage Mets. A tip of the Mets cap to Bob R
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This post was written by kranepool on September 12, 2007
That is just fantastic stuff. Even hearing Lindsey signing off was good. One thing that struck me was that the game was on WNEW. You know, I don’t remember that. I thought the Mets were on WHN. Do you remember?
I’d have to look that up but I do remember they were on 970 WWDJ for a while, maybe that game was a confilct with WHN and was sent to NEW. I think in 1962 they were on WABC as well.
Yeah, I half knew they were on WABC, but that was before my time (earliest memories are from 1970).
I doubt I ever really listened to a game before I was 9 or so, which would have been the 1973 season. And, I would only have listened if the game wasn’t on t.v. or I was in the car and convinced my father to put it on (he was not a baseball fan).
Still, after we moved upstate I remember often tuning into a fading, crackling AM signal from New York and I’d have sworn I was listening to WHN. Maybe it was WNEW. Both were 50,000 Watt stations and could reach that far up (only not clearly).
& one could HEAR Lindsey’s Jackets, they were Sooooooo-Loud.
The Mets moved around the dial. They were on WHN for awhile as well as WNEW. I remember WWDJ as well…Bob Brown was the pre-game host. He did a good job. It was a New Jersey station and didn’t seem to have the strongest signal. Not sure why the Mets didn’t have a New York station!
Mets were on WABC, along with Coz Brucie during doo wop, JFK, Polo Grounds years. Switched to WHN along with new Shea Stadium in ’64 for whole new surroundings in the now changed Beatles,LBJ era…in clean synch with flow of times. Took longer for losing ways to change though…but they were right on Tao for that too in ’69!