This Week In Baseball With Mel Allen

Before the internet age and 24 hour sports programming, This Week In Baseball was able to bring video, of all the teams in the major leagues, into your local market and on your living room TV. A concept unheard of until then. The creatively, innovative show would also breath life, and ressurect the career of broadcast legend Mel Allen, who was living a sad nomadic baseball life, after his iconic Yankees career ended abrubtly and without cause. Before this show could get greenlit, it had many daunting challenges to overcome. This is the story of must see 1980's television, if you were a baseball fan. This is the story of This Week In Baseball with Mel Allen. #ThisWeekInBaseball #GeoffBelinfante #JohnScott #GatheringCrowds #OzzieSmith #NBC #NewYorkYankees #RedBarber #MelAllen #JakeRobinson #LetsTalkBaseballPodcast Network #BackwardsKPod