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Retro Sports Radio: Classic Games from History

Retro Sports Radio: Classic Games from History

RetroSeasons.com 464 episodes Nov 10, 2026

Retro Sports Radio: Classic Games from History presents vintage radio broadcasts of baseball and football games and interviews spanning the past 100 years of sports. Listeners hear legendary announcers such as Vin Scully, Ernie Harwell, Mel Allen, Harry Caray, and Phil Rizzuto call the action. Full games are published three times a week on Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday, with bonus content and interview clips on Mondays. All old-time radio broadcasts featured are in the public domain, have expired copyright, or are freely available under Creative Commons. More sports history can be found at RetroSeasons.com.

Episodes

1976-Dec-04 - Baltimore Colts vs St. Louis Cardinals - NFL Game
1976-Dec-04 - Baltimore Colts vs St. Louis Cardinals - NFL Game Nov 10, 2026 2:05:16 - 1976 NFL Standings - Saturday Dec 4, 1976 - Start Time: 1:00pm - Stadium: Civic Center Busch Memorial Stadium - - Radio Announcers - Chuck Thompson - Vince Bagli - - Head Coaches - Blanton Collier - Wally Lemm- - Top Players - 1976 Baltimore Colts - QB - Bert Jones - RB - Lydell Mitchell - WR - Glenn Doughty - WR - Roger Carr - RB - Howard Stevens - FS - Jackie Wallace - RDE - John Dutton - RDT
1963 - Baseball Clip - Stan Musial Hit Record - Highlights
1963 - Baseball Clip - Stan Musial Hit Record - Highlights Nov 5, 2026 32:58 Announcers - Joe Garagiola Stan Musial's 1963 season was his 22nd and last with the St. Louis Cardinals, played at age 42. He had already passed 3,000 hits in 1958, becoming just the eighth player in major league history to do so, and by the start of 1963 sat within range of Honus Wagner's National League career hits record of 3,430. Musial finished the year with 3,630 hits, a mark that stood as t
1969 - Football Clip - 100 Years NCAA Football - College Highlights
1969 - Football Clip - 100 Years NCAA Football - College Highlights Oct 29, 2026 51:19 1969 marked the 100th anniversary of college football, dated from the first intercollegiate game between Rutgers and Princeton on November 6, 1869. The centennial season was marked with various commemorations — special patches and logos on uniforms, retrospective All-America team selections spanning the sport's history, and considerable media attention on the game's evolution from that first conte
1982 - Baseball Clip - Hall of Fame Simulation - The Greatest Baseball Game Never Played
1982 - Baseball Clip - Hall of Fame Simulation - The Greatest Baseball Game Never Played Oct 22, 2026 39:05 Announcers - Jack Buck - Lindsey NelsonThis is an unusual piece — not a real game at all, but a 1982 broadcast of a computer-simulated contest called The Greatest Baseball Game Never Played.The premise: Apple Computer and The Sporting News simulated a game between the greatest players in American League history and the greatest in National League history, using custom software (built on an Apple I
1994 - Baseball Clip - Mickey Mantle Interview by Bob Costas - Highlights
1994 - Baseball Clip - Mickey Mantle Interview by Bob Costas - Highlights Oct 15, 2026 15:27 Announcers - Bob Costas - By 1994, Mickey Mantle was nearly 25 years removed from his playing career, which had ended after the 1968 season. He'd spent much of the years since as a fixture at old-timers' events and memorabilia shows, and had also become increasingly public about his struggles with alcoholism — he would enter the Betty Ford Center in January 1994, the same year this interview appea
1976 - Baseball Clip - Cincinnati Reds Greatest Hits - Highlights
1976 - Baseball Clip - Cincinnati Reds Greatest Hits - Highlights Oct 8, 2026 47:07 Announcers - Marty Brennaman - Joe Nuxhall - The 1976 Reds completed a second consecutive World Series title, sweeping the New York Yankees in four games after having swept the Philadelphia Phillies in the NLCS — the first team in the League Championship Series era to go through an entire postseason undefeated. The roster, known by then as the Big Red Machine, was built around Joe Morgan, who won
1981 - Baseball Clip - 1981 Los Angeles Dodgers - Vin Scully Highlights
1981 - Baseball Clip - 1981 Los Angeles Dodgers - Vin Scully Highlights Oct 1, 2026 29:33 The 1981 Dodgers season was split into two halves by the players' strike that wiped out roughly two months of the schedule in June and July. Los Angeles won the National League West outright in the first half under manager Tom Lasorda, then qualified again as a division half-season winner, which meant an extra postseason round — the first National League Division Series — was added against the Hou
1977-Jun-23 - NYY/NYM - New York Yankees vs New York Mets - Exhibition Mayors Trophy Game - Classic Baseball Radio Broadcast
1977-Jun-23 - NYY/NYM - New York Yankees vs New York Mets - Exhibition Mayors Trophy Game - Classic Baseball Radio Broadcast Sep 25, 2026 2:36:52 The Mayor's Trophy Game was a charity exhibition born out of civic pride and old-fashioned New York baseball rivalry — a way to let the city's teams settle bragging rights in a low-stakes summer game while funneling gate proceeds into sandlot baseball for city kids. It started in 1946 as a Yankees-Giants series for a trophy named after Mayor William O'Dwyer, with the Dodgers joining in occasionall
1964 - Baseball Clip - 1964 St Louis Cardinals - Highlights
1964 - Baseball Clip - 1964 St Louis Cardinals - Highlights Sep 24, 2026 32:12 Announcers- Jack Buck- Harry CarayThe Cardinals' 1964 pennant race and World Series win, presented as a season-ending recap by the club's radio team of Harry Caray and Jack Buck. Caray had already been the voice of the Cardinals for close to two decades by 1964, having joined the broadcast in the mid-1940s; Buck, who would go on to call Cardinals baseball into the 2000s, was roughly a decade into
1969-Aug-31 - PHI/LAD - Philadelphia Phillies vs Los Angeles Dodgers - Classic Baseball Radio Broadcast
1969-Aug-31 - PHI/LAD - Philadelphia Phillies vs Los Angeles Dodgers - Classic Baseball Radio Broadcast Sep 23, 2026 2:02:01 - 1969 MLB Standings- Sunday, August 31, 1969- Start Time: 1:00 p.m. Local- Attendance: 19,357- Venue: Dodger Stadium-- Radio Announcers- Vin Scully- Jerry Doggett-- Managers- George Myatt- Walt Alston-- Starting Lineups- 1969 Philadelphia Phillies- 1 - SS - Terry Harmon- 2 - CF - John Briggs- 3 - 1B - Dick Allen- 4 - RF - Johnny Callison- 5 - 3B - Deron Johnson- 6 - LF - Ron Stone- 7 - C - Dave W
1978-Aug-16 - CLE/DET - Cleveland Indians vs Detroit Tigers - Classic Baseball Radio Broadcast
1978-Aug-16 - CLE/DET - Cleveland Indians vs Detroit Tigers - Classic Baseball Radio Broadcast Sep 20, 2026 2:15:56 - 1978 MLB Standings- Wednesday, August 16, 1978- Start Time: 8:00 p.m. Local- Attendance: 15,819- Venue: Tiger Stadium-- Radio Announcers- Herb Score- Joe Tate-- Managers- Jeff Torborg- Ralph Houk-- Starting Lineups- 1978 Cleveland Indians- 1 - CF - Rick Manning- 2 - 3B - Buddy Bell- 3 - LF - Johnny Grubb- 4 - 1B - Andre Thornton- 5 - C - Gary Alexander- 6 - DH - Bernie Carbo- 7 - RF - Jim Norris
1961-Jun-18 - NYY/DET - New York Yankees vs Detroit Tigers - Classic Baseball Radio Broadcast
1961-Jun-18 - NYY/DET - New York Yankees vs Detroit Tigers - Classic Baseball Radio Broadcast Sep 18, 2026 2:32:08 - 1961 MLB Standings - Sunday, June 18, 1961 - Attendance: 44,459 - Venue: Tiger Stadium - - Radio Announcers - Mel Allen - - Managers - Ralph Houk - Bob Scheffing - - Starting Lineups - 1961 New York Yankees - 1 - 2B - Bobby Richardson - 2 - 3B - Clete Boyer - 3 - RF - Roger Maris - 4 - CF - Mickey Mantle - 5 - LF - Yogi Berra - 6 - 1B - Bill Skowron - 7 - C - Johnny Blanchard - 8 - SS - Joe DeMa

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