Talk:1921 World Series

Ruth's absense

can someone give more clarification as to why Ruth didn't play in games 6 and 7 and didn't start in game 8? Kingturtle (talk) 12:56, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

broadcast "dispute"

User:Danfost (talk) added a comment to the article text, which was subsequently removed by a bot. So, rather then his comment becoming lost I figured that I would take the initiative to at least post what he said here on the talk page (which is probably what Danfost should have done himself, but that's a different discussion):

The Series was the first to be broadcast on radio. Announcer Thomas Cowan recreated the game over Westinghouse-owned WJZ in Newark, listening to phoned-in reports from the stadium. (Answers.com is wrong in attributing this first broadcast to sportswriter Grantland Rice—Rice announced the 1922 World Series over WJZ the following year.) This account conflicts with the information in the box at right, which says Grantland Rice broadcast on KDKA. I don't know the answer so I'm just noting this conflict.

The bolded text is what Danfost added as a comment. I don't know the answer either, so I'm just going to point this out. Hopefully someone will come along and correct... whatever needs to be corrected. Ohms law (talk) 22:10, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

DevorahLeah (talk) 07:47, 18 December 2010 (UTC)I do know the answer, and if it's not too late, I can share it. The game was broadcast from the Polo Grounds in NY. Grantland Rice did in fact do the play by play from NY, over station WJZ, then in Newark. But here's where the confusion comes in. Several other stations also carried the game, KDKA among them. (Here in Boston, a couple of amateur stations picked it up. Back then, there was still no rule that amateur stations couldn't broadcast events the same as so-called commercial stations did, so some of the hams carried the game too.) Anyway, on page 236 of the December 1922 issue of Popular Radio, it shows Rice doing the broadcast and states the obvious: he was in act in NY, and not in Pittsburgh. The author of the Popular Radio article was also the radio editor of the NY Times, and a fairly reliable source. There are also articles in other radio magazines, like Radio News, which state the same thing. http://earlyradiohistory.us/1922who.htm

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