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Originally Posted by Hankphenom
The Hall of Fame is starting a 3-year project to digitize their entire collection, which includes Ritter's original reel-to-reel audio tapes. Perhaps they intend to make the results available online. Actually, they already have in their audio collection a digitized set of the tapes, which my partner and I, Neal McCabe, used for the currently available Highbridge set (5 hours, 4 cds) when we produced it in 1998. I don't know if this digitized version is available for listening at the hall. Ritter also donated a copy of the original tapes to the Joyce Collection of the University of Notre Dame. Here is a link to a list of the full contents, which I'm sure you will find interesting:
http://www.sports.nd.edu/Baseball/ritter.html
Of course, there is tons of fascinating stuff in the 120 hours of the original tapes that didn't make it into the published set. But, after working on this project for many months, we both agreed that the 5-hour limitation we were working with turned out to be oddly perfect for the goals we intended for our set, which was to recreate as much as possible the magic of Larry's book. For us, the material for any kind of a "sequel" just wasn't there, or we would have done one. Virtually everything we really wanted made it into the 5 hours available, and there was very, very, little that we regretted not being able to squeeze in. It was almost as if that was the way it was meant to be.
Hank Thomas |
Wow. So I guess I owe you thanks Hank for coming out with the CD. Do you (or does anyone) know if there are any photos of the interviews or of the subjects themselves? I would love to see where Hans Lobert was living and to see that creaking chair? Also - in the Goose Goslin interview it sounds like Ritter had his son with him - is that true?
And where is Babe's bat the Chief Meyer speaks of?
That book is the reason why I'm on this forum today.
and the creation of the internet