Retro Sports Radio: Classic Games from History

Announcers

- Jack Buck

- Lindsey Nelson

This is an unusual piece — not a real game at all, but a 1982 broadcast of a computer-simulated contes...

Announcers

- Bob Costas

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By 1994, Mickey Mantle was nearly 25 years removed from his playing career, which had ended after the 1968 season. He'd spent much of the years since as a fixture at old-timers' events and memorabilia shows, and had al...

Announcers

- Marty Brennaman

- Joe Nuxhall

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The 1976 Reds completed a second consecutive

The 1981 Dodgers season was split into two halves by the players' strike that wiped out roughly two months of the schedule in June and July. Los Angeles won the National League West outright in the first half under manager Tom Lasorda, then qualified again as a division half-season winner, which meant an extra postseason round — the first National League Division Series — was...

The Mayor's Trophy Game was a charity exhibition born out of civic pride and old-fashioned New York baseball rivalry — a way to let the city's teams settle bragging rights in a low-stakes summer game while funneling gate proceeds into sandlot baseball for city kids. It started in 1946 as a Yankees-Giants series for a trophy named after Mayor William O'Dwyer, with the Dodgers ...