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    Interviews With Baseball Players And Managers of 1960's

    SABR adds Clifford Evans radio interviews to Oral History Collection
    SABR Oral History Collection:
    Clifford Evans interviewsMAY 17, 2022 — An invaluable collection of more than 50 audio interviews of baseball players and figures from the 1960s conducted by radio and TV executive Clifford Evans has been added to the SABR Oral History Collection.

    Evans, a longtime executive with RKO radio, traveled to spring training in Florida each year during the early 1960s and conducted dozens of interviews with baseball players and managers who were preparing for the upcoming season. The broadcast-quality interviews, typically about 5 to 10 minutes in duration, were acquired, digitized from reel-to-reel tapes, and donated by Gregory L. Peterson, a SABR member and attorney from New York.


    Recordings of 11 Hall of Famers are included in this set: Roberto Clemente, Frankie Frisch, Nellie Fox, Goose Goslin, Al Lopez, Frank Robinson (two separate interviews), Red Ruffing, Duke Snider, Casey Stengel, Bill Terry, and Paul Waner.

    Other interviews are from Old-Timers’ Day at Yankee Stadium on August 13, 1960, including Tommy Bridges, Bobo Newsom, and former US President Herbert Hoover. Fresh off hitting a record 61 home runs in 1961, Roger Maris is interviewed about the Yankees’ upcoming season. Young St. Louis Cardinals prospects Curt Flood and future NL president Bill White are also interviewed before the 1962 season opener.

    Evans also recorded interviews with New York Yankees broadcaster Mel Allen, Brooklyn Dodgers superfan Hilda Chester, baseball clown Al Schacht, managers Fred Hutchinson (a few months before he died from cancer), Ralph Houk, and Danny Murtaugh, plus a number of original New York Mets from their early expansion era.
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    Re: Interviews With Baseball Players And Managers of 1960's

    I just listened to a Frank Robinson interview from 2-26-1963
    I plan to listen to all of these interviews.

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    Re: Interviews With Baseball Players And Managers of 1960's

    Thank you for posting. I'm sure all of these will be great to listen. I started with Herbert Hoover since I like reading history so much and am in the process of reading a biography on every President. He was asked who was the greatest player he ever saw and he replied with Ty Cobb. Asked why? he said because Cobb was a political booster of his. Ah... Hoover was being the politician even his old age. Hoover was a Yankee fan BTW so you would have thought he may have said Ruth or DiMaggio or one of many others.
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