Joel Rubin wrote:
I've asked this question before, but now that the most famous
practitioner of this art has died, it seems time to ask it again.

At one time, bandwidth was so expensive that not only couldn't you
post a large binary in a non-binary group -) but it was too expensive
to get a broadcast-quality phone line to broadcast a Chicago Cubs game
over radio station WHO in Des Moines.


I can remember (barely) that when WIND in Chicago carried the Cubs in
middle 40's (or so) they would recreate a game whenever the Cub's game
was rained out. I believe the White Sox station would also do this on
rain outs. Both stations were very good at it. Crowd noise, hitting
something for the bat sound, etc.

Charlie who later worked at WIND but by then WGN had the Cubs.

Charlie wrote:

I can remember (barely) that when WIND in Chicago carried the Cubs in
middle 40's (or so) they would recreate a game whenever the Cub's game
was rained out. I believe the White Sox station would also do this on
rain outs. Both stations were very good at it. Crowd noise, hitting
something for the bat sound, etc.

Sounds a lot like what happened in an episode of the TV show "M*A*S*H" where
Frank bets on games he heard the results of the previous night on the radio.
Hawkeye creates a new game and gets Frank back.