Broadcasting a baseball game in the dark

Crafting the Call: A behind-the-scenes glimpse into re-creating a baseball game in 2024 the way Ronald Reagan and other radio pioneers once did

Before he was the President, before he was a Governor, before he was even an actor, Ronald Reagan worked in broadcasting. He was a sports announcer for WHO Radio in Des Moines, Iowa in the 1930s.

Back then, broadcasting was in its infancy, the radio equipment was heavy and enormous, and it was too expensive to send the team’s play-by-play announcer on th…