DEDICATION OF DOUBLEDAY FIELD {BASEBALL CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION} (RADIO)
Summary
This special program celebrates baseball's centennial by featuring comments on the opening of the Baseball Hall of Fame, as well as a baseball game at Doubleday Field in Cooperstown, New York, with reporter Tom Manning describing the events. Each of the sixteen major league clubs have contributed at least two players for the game, and the honorary captains of the teams are Hall of Fame inductees Honus Wagner of the National League and Eddie Collins of the American League. Manning introduces the following who comment briefly: Ford Frick (president of the National League); baseball commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis; Will Harridge (president of the American League); William Gibbons Bramham of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues; and Clark Griffith. Coverage switches to Doubleday Field with comments from Postmaster General James J. Farley. Manning, now at Doubleday Field, lets the following talk to the radio audience: Hank Greenberg and Babe Ruth talk about home runs; Dizzy Dean talks about his arm and his brother, Paul; Henry P. Edwards of the American League; the mayor of Cooperstown; Manning says Walter Johnson is batting grounders; Tris Speaker; Ty Cobb talks about Cy Young; Cy Young (511 wins); Napoleon "Nap" Lajoie; Manning lists the line-up of the two teams; Bill Klem (umpire) and Eddie Collins. Includes some play-by-play which ends in the early innings. Manning closes.
Details
- NETWORK: NBC Blue
- DATE: June 12, 1939 Monday 3:30 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:30:00
- COLOR/B&W: N/A
- CATALOG ID: R:9009
- GENRE: Radio - Specials; Radio - Sports
- SUBJECT HEADING: Baseball; National Baseball Hall of Fame; National Baseball Museum; Sports
- SERIES RUN: NBC - Radio, 1939
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Tom Manning … Reporter
- William Gibbons Bramham
- Ty Cobb
- Eddie Collins
- Dizzy Dean
- James J. Farley
- Ford Frick
- Hank Greenberg
- Clark Griffith
- Will Harridge
- Walter Johnson
- Bill Klem
- Napoleon Lajoie
- Kenesaw Mountain Landis
- Babe Ruth
- Honus Wagner
- Cy Young