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Message: [QUOTE="Ex Nutmegger, post: 3496196, member: 8025"] Zymurg, I also listened to UConn games on the radio in 1953 and 54. My prized possession was a very small battery operated radio made by the Westinghouse Company(bigger than GE in radios, small appliances, etc. at the time). The UConn play-by-play announcer was great( I can’t remember his name either). His descriptions made me feel as though I could see Art Quimby raking down rebound after rebound from Yankee Conference opponents. As for Bob Steele, he definitely got us going in the morning. He had a rich sense of humor. Occasionally he would start off his sport section with “Last nights baseball scores were 5 to 3, 2 to 1, 7 to 4 and 6 to 5.“ No teams mentioned! In the winter my kid sister and I would listen with rapt attention while he gave the school snow closing announcements until our town, Andover came up. We would jump for joy and bundle up in our “Pillsbury Doughboy” snow outfits and go out and “re-tromp” the “Fox and Geese” circle/maze for our friends to come over and play. Ah the Hartford Chiefs! My father took me to Buckley Stadium two times. We saw George Crowe play. This was special for me. At about the same time, my father and some other dads built a baseball field on a lot down by Route 6 with a really big backstop a good in-field and a so-so outfield. The towns in the area were so small we had our own informal inter-town “little league’ with my town, Andover as well as Columbia, Hebron and Bolton each having one team. Great friendly rivalries! [/QUOTE]

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