GORDON MCLENDON NEW YORK GIANTS VS BROOKLYN DODGERS FINAL PLAYOFF GAME 10/3/1951
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GORDON MCLENDON NEW YORK GIANTS VS BROOKLYN DODGERS FINAL PLAYOFF GAME OCTOBER 3, 1951
THE OLD SCOTCHMAN - LP 1098
RED VINYL
RECORTING STARTS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE 8TH.
Gordon Barton McLendon (June 8, 1921 – September 14, 1986McLendon, who nicknamed himself "The Old Scotchman", is also noted in radio history as the founder of the Liberty Radio Network (noted for its daily national broadcasts of Major League Baseball) in the 1940s. Liberty was the second largest radio network in the U.S. at the time with over 458 affiliated stations. Most of Liberty's MLB broadcasts were re-creations of games, utilizing McLendon himself and future sportscasting stars such as Lindsey Nelson and Jerry Doggett on play-by-play.
It was a live, not recreated game that provided McLendon and Liberty with their greatest career moment. The Old Scotchman himself was behind the Liberty microphone at the Polo Grounds in New York for the October 3, 1951 finale of the three-game National League play-off series between the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers. Bobby Thomson of the Giants swung at Dodger Ralph Branca's 0–1 pitch in the last of the ninth with two runners aboard, and McLendon barked:
Bobby swings, there's a long one out there out to left! Going, going, GONE and the Giants win the pennant! Gordon then went silent and let the crowd's roar speak for itself. With radio still the more popular nationwide medium then, and with Russ Hodges' famous radio call limited to WMCA and its Giants' network, McLendon's call is how most Americans heard the NL clincher. was a radio broadcaster. He was nicknamed "the Maverick of Radio." McLendon is widely credited for perfecting, during the 1950s and 1960s, the commercially successful Top 40 radio format created by Todd Storz. He also developed offshore pirate radio broadcasting to both Scandinavia and the British Isles. In addition, he was active in circles of conservative business-political power in the 1960s until the time of his death.
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