When I heard that Len Kasper was giving up his 14-year gig broadcasting Cubs games on TV — arguably one of baseball’s most coveted play-by-play posts — to cover White Sox games on radio, and chalking up his decision to youthful memories of Ernie Harwell’s radio depictions of Detroit Tigers games, I couldn’t help but smile. Widely. And turn back the clock to the summers of my own youth in late ‘50s Evanston. ...
I’m a die-hard, pre-teen White Sox fan-attic. My team is playing West Coast night games. Bob Elson is handling play-by-play on the radio, Milo Hamilton is adding color, and I’m listening on a portable transistor radio tucked under the covers.