RIP: This Week in Baseball

A blurb from Mushnick's column:

I think it would be hard for younger people to understand how vital this show was in a pre-SportsCenter era.

 

My dad and I used to watch that show every Saturday. That show introduced me to Mel Allen, who my dad had grown up listening to during Yankee broadcasts.

 

This is so stupid. I love TWIB.

 

I didn't even realize it was still on, but I loved it as a child. My dad and I would get so excited together when it showed up. Amazing how you can essentially watch modern-day versions of TWIB about 12 times a day on MLB Network and ESPN.

Did anyone else watch "The Baseball Bunch," as well?

 

24 years? Is that some reconstituted version? I distinctly remember doing my Graig Nettles dives in my living room, and that was a lot longer than 24 years ago.

 

I'm with you. I definitely watched it before I was 11 years old. Has to be a typo. Maybe 34 years?

EDIT: Yep, 34.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Week_In_Baseball

 

Maybe it was on Fox for 24 years? It's definitely been around since at least the late 70s.

 

Since 1977.

 

Lines like that one from Mushnick drive me nuts. Such disingenuous bullshit.

I watched it as a kid, too. It's utterly obsolete now. There is a 24 hour network devoted to nothing but baseball. Let's not turn this into some sad moral statement -- the show no longer had a void to fill.

 

Looks like it began in 1977, so probably a typo. Should be 34 years.

 

Mel Allen was great in "The Client."