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Who remembers keeping up with LSU CWS in baseball in the 80s?
Posted on 5/11/25 at 3:57 pm
Posted on 5/11/25 at 3:57 pm
I remember school was out and usually I was out of town on a church trip or something.
I clearly remember being in Gulf Shores on a fishing trip one time and having to grab the local paper to find any reference to the CWS at all.
It was usually on the bottom of the last page of Sports in paragraph form something like:
Can't believe how primitive it was getting LSU news outside of La in the 80s.
I clearly remember being in Gulf Shores on a fishing trip one time and having to grab the local paper to find any reference to the CWS at all.
It was usually on the bottom of the last page of Sports in paragraph form something like:
quote:
Louisiana State 4; Long Beach 3... Blah blah all the other games that day
Can't believe how primitive it was getting LSU news outside of La in the 80s.
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Posted on 5/11/25 at 3:59 pm to CAD703X
I remember listening to it on the radio
Posted on 5/11/25 at 4:01 pm to kciDAtaE
radio is all we had for eons well into the 1990s.
you only saw beisbol on TV if we made CWS. a very niche sport.
basketball got way more TV coverage back then
you only saw beisbol on TV if we made CWS. a very niche sport.
basketball got way more TV coverage back then
Posted on 5/11/25 at 4:03 pm to CAD703X
Losing to Stanford on a grand slam still hurts.
Posted on 5/11/25 at 4:04 pm to CAD703X
quote:
It was usually on the bottom of the last page of Sports in paragraph form something like:
unless you caught WAFB news at 10 pM you had to go get papers back in the day to read any coverage.
i always went to a store and boughta sunday paper and took out the sports section religiously
Posted on 5/11/25 at 4:05 pm to CAD703X
WJBO cutting in and out with crackling.
Posted on 5/11/25 at 4:05 pm to HonoraryCoonass
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Losing to Stanford on a grand slam still hurts.
meh we got our revenge many times over since then. 1997 and 2000
Posted on 5/11/25 at 4:09 pm to CAD703X
I remember keeping up with the world series before LSU was in the conversation.
Seemed like Texas, OSU, USC, Miami, FSU, ASU, and Stanford were in it every year. Occasionally an SEC team such as MSU would make an appearance.
I also remember when ESPN would have a Sunday night match up between one the previously mentioned programs.
Seemed like Texas, OSU, USC, Miami, FSU, ASU, and Stanford were in it every year. Occasionally an SEC team such as MSU would make an appearance.
I also remember when ESPN would have a Sunday night match up between one the previously mentioned programs.
This post was edited on 5/11/25 at 4:15 pm
Posted on 5/11/25 at 4:12 pm to CAD703X
I think in 1987 or so, I was sitting in the Bernie Moore stands behind Jackie Sherrill watching the NCAA track championships and listening to the CWS when Ben McDonald gave up the grand slam to Stanford.
(Hope I’m not confusing multiple memories).
(Hope I’m not confusing multiple memories).
Posted on 5/11/25 at 4:20 pm to CAD703X
Use to watch ESPN back in graduate school at LSU -- 78-80, MSU was the player back then
Posted on 5/11/25 at 4:22 pm to CAD703X
Crazy 40 years later people bitch about camera angles when LSU play Southeastern on a Tuesday night
Posted on 5/11/25 at 4:25 pm to CAD703X
We’ve come a long way from barely being able to listen to the CWS on the radio to every single game being televised.
Posted on 5/11/25 at 4:34 pm to CAD703X
WJBO - TYFYS
Posted on 5/11/25 at 4:40 pm to CAD703X
Remember the first CWS Championship win like it was yesterday. Daddy had me painting the house. I was listening to it on the radio and when they won I started hollering and mama thought I had fallen off the ladder. 
Good times.
Good times. Posted on 5/11/25 at 4:50 pm to HonoraryCoonass
ouch!!!… that is one memory i could do without…
Posted on 5/11/25 at 4:51 pm to kciDAtaE
I remember paying to listen to the rice super regional.
Posted on 5/11/25 at 4:54 pm to CAD703X
ESPN would replay games late at night
Posted on 5/11/25 at 4:58 pm to CAD703X
I remember "Gorilla ball". I guess thats no longer politically correct but damn were they good.
Posted on 5/11/25 at 4:58 pm to CAD703X
ESPN covered the CWS before LSU ever made it there. LSU made it in 86 and the games were on ESPN. Now any other game on tv during the regular season was an only dream. It was on the radio only.
I watched Miami pull off the “hidden ball trick” at the CWS in the early 80s.
I watched Miami pull off the “hidden ball trick” at the CWS in the early 80s.
This post was edited on 5/11/25 at 5:01 pm
Posted on 5/11/25 at 4:58 pm to jmaclsu
I lived in Denver at the time and all I could catch was WRNO worldwide shortwave. You could catch enough for night games to understand what was going on, but day games—-good luck!
This post was edited on 5/11/25 at 5:32 pm
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