With the future of AM unclear, a look back at the powerful role radio plays in baseball history

Growing up in the Boston suburbs, Suzyn Waldman fell madly in love with two things: baseball and Broadway shows. “I can still hear Ned Martin of the Red Sox reciting poetry about the mountains in Anaheim,” said Waldman, the pioneer announcer and former star of musical stage who's been calling New York Yankees games for decades. In fact, next month will mark the 100th anniversary of the first World Series broadcast to a national radio audience, when Graham McNamee and Ford Frick were among those who called the 1923 Fall Classic between the Giants and Yankees on NBC.

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