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Summary

Disorganized Baseball
Airdate: Wednesday - June 29, 1966

WOR Show
Original Airing

audio

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends
Holy Smokes, what an opening. . .
Show Description
A salute to 'factory made' stickball bats. Shep requests a bimbo to call in and receives a call from a woman who claims to be a "Bronx Tomato". Stickball is an Eastern game. It was not played in Indiana. They played baseball in Striker's empty lot only to be chased by Mrs. Striker. They played one inning at a time and often had to chase after Emde's dog 'Zero' who would run off with the ball. If you hit the ball into the stickers in right field you would be out. The baseballs lost their covers after a few days and they would wrap the ball in tape to keep it from unraveling. One day they built a ball field in a empty lot. They spent a week cleaning out the weeds and making an infield. When they were all done, bulldozers showed up to build houses. They just kept moving from lot to lot. "The moving portable ballgame." One day Mr. Gorden, the scoutmaster, of Troop 41 - "the Moose Patrol", gets all the kids together to form an American Legion Baseball team. They spent 3 days running around the field practicing, and then had squad eliminations. They had to sign for their uniforms. After having played with oversized taped balls, they couldn't field a real one!
Comments
• During the spot for Chinzano Shep tells about the famous ashtray and how he arranged to give 200 of them away to listeners who wrote in.
WOR ID
Time Station ID (All times approximate)
Speaking of Toads - this is WOR AM and FM in New York
Commercials (All times approximate)
Time Sponsor Notes
Cinzano
Honda Motorcyles
Miller Beer
Rover 2000
Wohlmuth
Music (All times approximate)
Time Music Title Notes
First Film Music
The Chase
Callers
Caller Time Notes
• Takes a call from a female listener who says she's a "Bronx Tomato". Shep wanted to talk to a 'bimbo'.
Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth
Time Engineer, Staff or Guest
Larry Londino
Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show
Not Determined
Rating / Review
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Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used
Category Date Title Comments Time
General Topics Baseball
General Topics Kid Stories
Radio Callers Shep Spoke To
Airdate History ' - Original' date is earliest known broadcast)
Date Title  
June 29, 1966
Recno: 603
Disorganized Baseball Original Airing
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Found in the following set(s)
Set Name Show # Media
1966 Set 5
224a
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