Baseball just lends itself so well to being broadcast on the radio. Sometimes I actually prefer listening to the Rangers play than watching them. It's so great imagining the ballgame while the broadcasters paint a vivid picture of the drama unfolding. And when you have a broadcasting team as talented as the great Eric Nadel, along with Dave Barnett, it really makes listening an enjoyable experience. No other sport lends itself so well to the radio, either. Football, and especially basketball, are just awful on the radio, by the very nature of each sport. But baseball is a natural on the radio, especially at the hands of a talented broadcast team like the Rangers are fortunate enough to have.

Anyone else feel this way?

Absolutely.

1976 was the first year I followed the world's greatest game passionately ... I listened to Dick Risenhoover and Bill Merrill describe the Rangers every night that season on my little transistor radio on KSST in Sulphur Springs, Texas.

That theater of the mind is an experience that has remained with me more than any game I have ever viewed on television.

Another point: listening to the late, great Mark Holtz turn coverage of the mediocre (at best) 1980s Texas Rangers into something you had to listen to every night is another highlight of my Baseball fan experience.

Great post, Cheapy. The voices of the late, great Mark Holtz and Eric Nadel are forever intertwined with happy memories of my childhood of my dad, my younger brother, and myself listening to Rangers' ballgames. I'll never, ever forget hearing Holtz call a Buddy Bell game winning two out in the bottom of the ninth grand slam over the Yankees. It's the stuff memories are made of.

I used to listen to the Cardinals on KMOX.....Jack Buck was awesome.....(yes, when the sun goes down, we can get KMOX here in the sticks....lol....)

before the rangers came werent the cardinals the closest team to listen to? the cards were like the team of the south back then right?

Wow. That brings back some things I had long forgotten. I had a set of AM/FM radio headphones as a child back in the 70's. Fell asleep many a night and used a lot of batteries listening to KMOX and the Cardinals' games.

Used to be a country song about a kid listening to a ball game on a transistor but I can't think of the name of it.

maybe "I heard on the Radio" or something like that.

anyway I liked that song, it brought back memories

perhaps the cheapster knows it but since its country idk.

TJC_fan once told me that the Chicago Cubs had a pretty nice following in East Texas -- one of the local stations (or was it a Shreveport station with a strong signal?) carried Cubs games in the 1950s and 1960s


'any of you old-timers remember if the Texas League's Dallas-Fort Worth Spurs had any local radio coverage?

lionel cartwright " i watched it all on my radio"

"I'd go through the stations 'till i found a game
I knew how the played by the sounds of their names
The sluggers hit homers, those pitchers threw smoke
And I watched it all on my radio"