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Sergeant Major
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- Nov 22, 2009
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It was World War II. At its peak, the U.S. military had more than 16 million troops deployed in Europe, the Pacific and the Mediterranean. Former student, Joe Hasel, reached those G.I.’s most nights, via The Armed Forces Radio Service.
https://www.cheshireacademy.org/page/joe-hasel-babe-ruth-interview
“The Sports Interview” program, sponsored by the Armed Forces of the United Nations, put Hasel at the helm. He interviewed more than 120 of the most famous athletes and managers of the time, such as Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey and Connie Mack.
Broadcasting’s list of historic programming repeatedly notes Hasel’s involvement as a groundbreaking sports announcer. In 1942, he provided commentary for the New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals for the first World Series game to be transmitted to troops around the world. Hasel was also the first to provide radio coverage of a road game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Brooklyn Dodgers and to announce the first television broadcast of the Cotton Bowl.
The recordings from Hasel’s interview program (which Cheshire Academy owns) capture the rise of professional sports in the United States. An interview with George Herman Ruth Jr. ex-plains how he got his nickname. “I was in the training camp,” in Baltimore, Ruth said. “One of the coaches there said, ’Look at that big babe come in here.’ So the name has stuck to me ever since.”
https://www.cheshireacademy.org/page/joe-hasel-babe-ruth-interview
“The Sports Interview” program, sponsored by the Armed Forces of the United Nations, put Hasel at the helm. He interviewed more than 120 of the most famous athletes and managers of the time, such as Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey and Connie Mack.
Broadcasting’s list of historic programming repeatedly notes Hasel’s involvement as a groundbreaking sports announcer. In 1942, he provided commentary for the New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals for the first World Series game to be transmitted to troops around the world. Hasel was also the first to provide radio coverage of a road game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Brooklyn Dodgers and to announce the first television broadcast of the Cotton Bowl.
The recordings from Hasel’s interview program (which Cheshire Academy owns) capture the rise of professional sports in the United States. An interview with George Herman Ruth Jr. ex-plains how he got his nickname. “I was in the training camp,” in Baltimore, Ruth said. “One of the coaches there said, ’Look at that big babe come in here.’ So the name has stuck to me ever since.”