On this Wednesday afternoon, only two games are under way. The Cubs and Astros, headed nowhere, share this quiet corner of the baseball world. But the Stros are home, and Milo Hamilton is working the game.
When the Braves were new to Atlanta, I heard Milo on WSB, and WSM except Friday and Saturday nights when the Grand Ole Opry was on.
Milo Hamilton been broadcasting major league games for as long as I've been alive. When the Astros played in Toronto this year, the Rogers Centre became the 60th MLB ball park in which he's worked.
He's also shared a radio booth with Harry Caray and lived to tell the story.
I searched out the Astros' radio network affiliate list. They're on in hot, steamy parts of Louisiana where there's nothing else to do except work on your Cajun French, and hot, drought-parched places in Texas where there's nothing else to do, period.
In Lubbock, it would be possible to drive out to the city cemetery, with Milo calling the play-by-play on 1420 KJDL, and say hello to Buddy Holly. Then finish the game on the way to the Hi-De-Ho. Not the same place where Buddy hung out, and where the Legendary Stardust Cowboy played. In Lubbock Texas, on a furnace of a Wednesday afternoon in August, however, it will do as a tourist attraction.
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