Twitter Brings Baseball Back to the 1930s

I’ve been following the local Little League all-star team as it makes its way through the regionals (last step before Little League World Series). Since the games are not on television or radio (or broadcast on the Internet), I’ve been following the action through the tweets of a local sports reporter (Pat Pickens).

It reminds me how Dutch Reagan and all of the other play-by-play announcers handled their craft decades ago, as they actually followed the game remotely by tickertape and then put together the “broadcast” of the game.

As soon as I see an update tweet from the Little Leaguers, I imagine how that play would have been called by Dutch and how he would have filled the time between batters and innings.

Ah, the era of imagination.