MLB.com offers Classic Radio Broadcasts on CD

[Jersey Yankee]

Each game comes on 2-3 CDs. $24.95/game

Classic Radio Broadcasts -- Own the best ballgame broadcasts ever, on compact disc

Listen to the original radio broadcasts featuring Hall-of-Fame players and announcers call games from the 1930s to the present.

Browse our collection -- organized by decade -- of World Series, milestones & clinchers, no-hitters & perfect games and much more. Simply click on any game for detailed information.

Please note: many of these broadcasts were originally preserved onto vinyl and are over 50 years old, so the audio quality does vary... but the historical significance & baseball action does not!

Try a sample: October 2, 1949: Boston Red Sox @ New York Yankees -- Listen to Mel Allen and Curt Gowdy call the 9th inning of this regular-season clincher. Despite a three-run Sox rally, the Yanks hang on to win the pennant on the last day of the season

[YanksRockMan]

if i had money...i would see if i could buy one..

[Flashfire]

$24.95 per GAME?

That, I'm telling you, is a ripoff. Historical or not, they're just trying to gouge the fans for more of their money. You don't even know the quality of the broadcast you're getting.

If it was for a few discs full of highlights and not full games, I'd be all over THAT.

[Slippery Elm]

Originally posted by Jersey Yankee
Each game comes on 2-3 CDs.

That's ridiculous. For a RADIO broadcast of a single game??

You can get more info on a single CD than a VHS, and I have the entire 10/2/78 Boston game on one VHS.

You must mean video.

Checck out this link: http://www.brooklyn-dodgers.com/barber.html

Two AUDIO cassettes per game for $15.95 each. The Miley Collection is rather famous. If they have Some Waite Hoyt tapes I'm getting them; his rain delays stories of the old Yankees were classic.

[Jersey Yankee]

Originally posted by Slippery Elm
That's ridiculous. For a RADIO broadcast of a single game??

You can get more info on a single CD than a VHS, and I have the entire 10/2/78 Boston game on one VHS.

You must mean video.

Actually, that game was on YES and I have it also (less the top of the 1st), so like other "Classic Yankee Games", it fits on a 160-minute tape using "SP", rather than "SLP" speed. Unlike audio, a VHS tape has multiple speeds.

I think that f/an audio disk, they are usually ~74 minutes per CD. Less commercials, even if each 80 minutes, a 4-hour game would conceivably fit onto three (3) CDs for a total of 240 minutes.

[jroll]

Originally posted by Flashfire
$24.95 per GAME?

That, I'm telling you, is a ripoff. Historical or not, they're just trying to gouge the fans for more of their money. You don't even know the quality of the broadcast you're getting.

If it was for a few discs full of highlights and not full games, I'd be all over THAT.

I'm with you. I'd love to own a collection of the all-time great games but at $25 a pop, there's no way anyone is going to buy more than a few. It's just another example of the people who run MLB not knowing what they're doing. At most it would cost them about $3-$4 a game, and they're going to turn around and charge the fans six to eight times their cost. They're just fools, no other word for it.

[deranged2005]

The MLB's greed rears its ugly head again.

Once again, the MLB comes up with a good idea, and hen puts a heafty charge on it. No one will pay.

[Jersey Yankee]

Originally posted by jroll
I'm with you. I'd love to own a collection of the all-time great games but at $25 a pop, there's no way anyone is going to buy more than a few. It's just another example of the people who run MLB not knowing what they're doing. At most it would cost them about $3-$4 a game, and they're going to turn around and charge the fans six to eight times their cost. They're just fools, no other word for it.

I'd say that if bought in bulk, the CD media would likely cost them $0.50 or $0.75 each, less labelling and packaging. They'd probably profit off the shipping as well.

Since MLB must either own or bought the master tapes, they've got an exclusive. As the article said, some of these were "preserved on vinyl", so I'm not sure. I may eventually buy one, but $15 apiece would've been nice, including a discount + free ground shipping w/3-game purchase would've been nicer, IMO.

[jroll]

Originally posted by Jersey Yankee
I'd say that if bought in bulk, the CD media would likely cost them $0.50 or $0.75 each, less labelling and packaging. They'd probably profit off the shipping as well.

Since MLB must either own or bought the master tapes, they've got an exclusive. As the article said, some of these were "preserved on vinyl", so I'm not sure. I may eventually buy one, but $15 apiece would've been nice, including a discount + free ground shipping w/3-game purchase would've been nicer, IMO.

You may be right, I was just guessing that the packaging and the transferring from tape to CD would cost two bucks. The CDs are probably about 50 cents apiece. And I figured stuff I had no way of estimating like storage would add another dollar. But anyway you cut it, charging $25 a pop is just gouging, plain and simple.

[Jersey Yankee]

Originally posted by jroll
You may be right, I was just guessing that the packaging and the transferring from tape to CD would cost two bucks. The CDs are probably about 50 cents apiece. And I figured stuff I had no way of estimating like storage would add another dollar. But anyway you cut it, charging $25 a pop is just gouging, plain and simple.

Knowing MLB, they probably farmed it all out to some 3rd party. Just hand them the master tapes, pay an all-inclusive fee, which includes storage, jewel boxes, labelling, packaging (the whole 9 yards). In bulk, I'd say it might cost them 2-3 bucks max per game. After dealing w/some music club, they'd charge a per-CD rate f/S&H, yet the final postage was far less (1st Class).

Like CD costs which didn't drop like fruitflies or calculator prices, I also find this whole thing funny.

Despite this, I may eventually get one just to see how I like it. Of course, I'd squeal like a pig first about the cost, but that's just me.