re: Listening to the games on the radio in the old days

I remember listening to my first transister radio that I bought by selling coke bottles at 2 cents apiece. It seemed to me that it was hard to get tickets in order to go to the games back in the 60's and 70's and when you did you took advantage of it by staying until after the stadium was almost empty before you left. You stood on your feet the whole time LSU was on offense yelling your head off until you lost your voice. That is what made Tiger Stadium the place that it is today people to not do that today, they sit on their tails until something happens then they might stand up and yell.

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But, the radio is where it all started when on a wet dreary night in Tiger Stadium on Halloween Night in 1959 J.C. Politz made the call of the centry as far as LSU Football goes. He was doing that game that night because LSU could not get anyone else to do the games so he did it because he loved LSU. Then John Ferguson became the voice of the Tigers made famous by the everyone that had a transister radio where they listened to the games at work, in the woods hunting, on the river from their camps or anywhere where they could listen to the voice of the Tigers make the call of the game that week. I have fond memories of the radio when those who where in the stands had ear plugs on connected to their transister radio in their pockets. It is by all these means that made it popular tp listen to the games on the radio and today if I am not at the game or in a place where I can not watch it on TV then I listen to the radio.

Oh! and that game back in 1959 I had a hard time picking up the game but through the crackling of aitwaves that night I heard J.C. Politz make a call that still sends chills through down my spin and also hearing him at the end of the game when Warren Rabb and Cannon made the stop at the goal line to stop Ole Miss and win the game 7-3.

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The good ol' days? I still listen to LSU football on the radio if LSU isn't playing on CBS or ESPN, which would be almost half the games. I like getting some bush-hogging done while Jim Hawthorne calls the game. And I look forward every spring to listening to about 2 or 3 dozen baseball games on the radio. Call me old fashioned, but there is a charm to listening to a game while getting some work done around the farm.

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I still listen to some of the baseball games on the radio (mostly while washing the car or working in the yard on the weekend). But I can get most of the games on t.v. here.