Warren Spahn - Why No Hobby Love?

[obcbeatle]

Originally Posted by Lucas00

The braves have fans far and wide, in strange places. I've heard their games were the only ones broadcasted publicly for free. I believe if you lived in Hawaii your only watchable team was the braves. This is before my time, but I'd love if somebody could chime in and elaborate.

To tie this into the thread, it confuses me even more that Warren isn't more popular.

As a kid in 1971, we moved from San Francisco to Miami, FL, bye bye Giants , hello ? Of course there was no MLB team in Miami in 1971, but the Braves broadcast games on radio, and then TV, to Miami. I quickly became a Braves fan, think Aaron, Murphy... Fast forward to 1980, I moved to Georgia. Ted Turner (TBS/TNT) soon broadcast games, to what seemed like to everywhere, sometime in the early 1990's, I believe. I bet that is when Hawaii received those broadcasts. So you are correct, the Braves became America's team because of Ted. I think I got most of that right. It sucks getting old