Tom's Vintage Baseball is not starting a movement, it is reliving one, a Golden Age of Baseball.
We are baseball fans, and you may be asking yourself, is this the right place for you to invest your time?
Vintage baseball is a collection of research that stretches back over 20 years that we want to share with you. The main thing you are going to find here is audio. Interviews, Game Broadcasts, and Game Snip Its.
This community is built for the folks who do enjoy the audio without the noise, so to speak, and want a baseball community, nothing more, nothing less.
Listen to baseball games from 1930's to 1970's, Regular Season, All-Star and World Series Games. Join a group, jump on a live stream or take them on a walk.
Enjoy hours of interviews with folks who played from the turn of the century 1900s through the 70s.
Meet each other folks like you through questions, quests, prompts, and live streams.
Share our stories and experiences.
You are seeking more, you are curious, you would love more knowledge, and you want to experience the game like it is in that exact time frame.
Other social media/community platforms are full of advertisements and trolls, and the free nature allows anyone to make you want to stay away from platforms.
What is this image about?
The radio is from the 1960's, it was my Dad's, Grundig Radio. It lived in our kitchen, and it remains my first memory of listening to a Boston Red Sox baseball game. Over the course of 20 years I listened to hundreds of games that echoed out of those speakers. The radio was always on, and sometimes we caught games from other regions it was a glorious time. Dad and I talked for thousands of hours about baseball, then and the history of the game. This radio reminds me of happy times every day I look at it.
If I close my eyes, I can hear him talking about Spahn, (his favorite), Hodges, Sain, Mays, Robinson, DiMaggio, Williams, and so many others. He made those men, I have never seen play a game come alive and they become hero's in my mind. He told me how Robinson played the game in a way no one had seen before. Hodges never get the credit for his incredible fielding at first. How Spahn knew how to win. He loved every Boston Brave and was still hurt they left. If we ever have the chance to talk, ask me about Tommy Holmes.
Then we inevitably debated Mays vs Ruth. For years upon years.
The book above it is the original Baseball Encyclopedia published in 1969. That book lived in my parents bedroom on a shelf. But once I started learning about the game, it was always in my room. It is dog-eared, stained, and every page has been touched.
Baseball touched my soul when I was very young, and despite how life changed, it was always my connection to my Dad, and his connection to his Dad, (a man I never knew, but knew all the stories of the games they attended). It was also my connection to my children, and there children.
The balls all represent events I was lucky enough to attend with my kids.
This image in a nutshell is why we did this.
I hope that these audios do the same for you. They bring back memories, or simply allow you to connect somehow with family or friends. If they do, I would love to hear your story.
If you have any other questions please feel free to reach out to me:
Our Podcast:
The Daily Rewind
Sister Website:
This Day In Baseball
https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-baseball-page
Youtube:
This Day In Baseball
Vintage Baseball Reflections is owned by:
Whitney & Hannon, LLC