This Week in Baseball

Yeah, the, uh, the Little League baseball example is such a good one to illustrate that point, John.

I remember back in the day, uh, not that it's Little League baseball, but, uh, This Week in Baseball did [smacks lips] a whole breakdown of, uh, softball, women's softball, high, high-level women's softball compared to Major League Baseball.

You said the music.

And they had, uh, at the time, Jennie Finch, who was an amazing softball player.

Oh, yeah.

And, uh, she was throwing to, uh, Barry Bonds in this episode of This Week in Baseball.

Thank you for the song by the way, Campbell.

Yeah.

...

in Baseball, and I'll just watch old episodes of This Week in Baseball for no reason at all.

For no good reason.

Yeah.

He struck him out with a fastball away.

[cheering] The weekly television highlight show, This Week in Baseball, will air in most cities tomorrow or Sunday.

Check your local listing for time and channel.

Talking about that Indianapolis club in the new issue of the Sporting News that'll be hitting the newsstands next week in the section covering the American Association.

I was like, so one day this is going to come in handy.

And who was here again? Johnny Bench from This Week in Baseball.

Who

probably wanted no part of that, but

That's how we would celebrate our family birthdays.

I grew up watching This Week in Baseball, like I'm sure some of you did.

I spent all my summers in Butte, Montana at my grandparents' house.

And it was walking distance from the Butte Copper Kings, which was a rookie ball professional team.

was.

This Week in Baseball.

This song? It is? Oh, yeah.

This is like, for people of a certain age, and you obviously are under that age, that you hear this...

This is all we had.

This was the highlight show.

If you loved baseball in the 80s, you gathered around the TV once a week to watch Mel Allen deliver this week in baseball.

And if they did your team, we're going to Wrigley Field in Chicago.

I think maybe you can.

Out of all players who debuted after 1950, can you tell me the eight players who are in the Hall of Fame but don't have their number retired by a Major League Baseball team? Oh, wow.

And these are all guys that we have mentioned countless times on this show.

Hmm.

Yes.

All right, Mark, our final part of BP is, as it's been lately, I'm enjoying it.

Let's play an old quiz here from This Week in Baseball because that way we get to hear Mel Allen's voice.

Mel, give us that quiz.