Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Dewayne Staats
Introduction
Part I. Imagination at Play: Radio, Baseball and the Creative Process
1. Long Distance Dreams: Baseball and Early Radio
2. Tall Tales and Recreations: Radio, Baseball, and Manufactured Reality
3. A Dark Room Deep in the Woods: Radio and Baseball in Fiction and Nonfiction
Part II. Imagination at Work: Radio, Baseball and the Creative Voice
4. Radio’s Pioneer of Poetic License: Gordon McLendon
5. Spellbinding Storyteller: Radio’s “Other” Stern
6. Casting a Magic Spell: Graham McNamee, Red Barber, and Mel Allen
Part III. Imagination at Home: Radio, Baseball and the Creative Listener
7. The Listener’s Club: Radio, Baseball, and a Sense of Community
8. A New Community: Radio, Baseball, and Bloggers
9. A New Field of Play: Radio, Baseball, and the Future
Chapter Notes
Appendix A: Recordings of Radio Broadcasts in the National Baseball Hall of Fame Library
Appendix B: Gordon McLendon Recordings in the Southwest Collection, Texas Tech University Library
Appendix C: Gordon McLendon’s Call of Bobby Thomson’s Famous “Shot Heard Round the World” (October 3, 1951)
Bibliography
Index
