Fwd: [Husker] Kansas City Royals (fwd)

[nustlnorris at aol.com]

Based on the recent demographic findings regarding those who comprise "The List" (47 years old, living in Lincoln, starving for a consistently powerful Husker hoops program), baseball play-by-play on radio has had to have had an impact, to one degree or another, on the lives of more than a few of us.  For me, it was Jack Buck (also a Ford Fricke inductee) doing Cardinal games in the late 60s and beyond.  I was blown away at a young age at how this guy could give me a mental picture of what it was like to be at Busch Stadium and other National League parks based solely on the non-visual, discriptive capabilities that existed amidst and manifested from those golden tonsils of his.  Unreal.  
 
Baseball play-by-play on radio will always be the ultimate 'golden nugget' of sports journalism for me (with all due respect to the truly gifted baseball writers of days gone by and today).
 
Back then, you couldn't turn the radio dial more than a centimeter or two without finding a Royals broadcast, and I remember another name from that broadcast team or one of those Matthews-led broadcast teams (forgive the probable hatchet-job) ... was it Bud Bladdner?  Had to be.  Or something close to that.  You guys would recollect better than I.  The way they signed on, "This is Denny Matthews and Bud Bladdner from Royals Stadium ..."  
 
Awesome.
 
Jack Buck ... Denny Matthews.  High-def audio.
 
Dave Norris
 
P.S.  Congratulations on the new family addition, Mike.   
 

-----Original Message-----
From: nolan at romaine.tssi.com
To: husker at romaine.tssi.com
Sent: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 9:46 PM
Subject: [Husker] Kansas City Royals (fwd)


> Denny, Fred (White) and now Ryan (Lefebvre) have all made summers enjoyable 
listing to Royals baseball even if they don't make the playoffs every year like 
they did in the late 70's and early 80's. 
> 
> Congratulations Denny on a well deserved honor.

No apologies needed, Gary.  It's a well-earned honor, and I, for one,
was delighted to read the news.

More than a few of us have spent many hours listening to Denny Matthews, 
so he's been a big part of the sports landscape around here even if he 
had no association with the Huskers.  Unfortunately, I don't think the 
Royals games have been on any Lincoln stations for a few years.  

Baseball play-by-play is IMHO one of the hardest jobs in sports broadcasting, 
because there's so much time to fill.  I can't even imagine how the 
old-timers did it off Western Union.  They do a couple of short takes on 
that in "Bull Durham" (without a doubt the best baseball movie ever made), 
though I kept having flashbacks to an old "I Love Lucy" episode.
--
Mike Nolan

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