Where can I hear early radio broadcasts of new york giants games?”
1951: The Giants win… Russ Hodges shouts of the most famous lines from a baseball game. After Bobby Thomson homers to give the Giants the pennant, Hodges shouts repeatedly, “The Giants Win the Pennant!” http://www.historicbaseball.com/fea/baseballbroadcasts.html Although they didn’t broadcast the regular season games until 1938, there was a world series game with the Giants that was on the radio: First World Series broadcast on radio: WJZ in Newark, NJ was the first station to broadcast the 1921 World Series between the New York Yankees and New York Giants. Tommy Cowan actually recreated the games from reports that were phoned in from the two stadiums. Journalist Grantland Rice broadcasted the first game of the series on KDKA. The next year, Rice was the lead announcer as WJZ broadcast the entire Series for the first time. h
