Broadcasting Pirates Games

ID: 2373 ~ Source: McCracken, Jarrell Franklin, interviewed by Thomas L. Charlton, September 30, 1971, in Waco, Texas, Baylor Institute for Oral History. View Full Interview
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Jarrell McCracken describes how they would broadcast Pirates games without actually being at the stadium.

This file appears in: The Waco Pirates

By Anabel Burke
Waco and baseball went hand in glove for over five decades. The famous Katy Park (pinned on map below) was home to multiple minor league teams starting in 1899, one of the most famous being the Waco Pirates. The Pirates brought in two championship…