1950s Notes NBC Radio succeeded Mutual as the exclusive World Series radio network beginning in 1957. 1940s 1930s Notes Fred Hoey was hired by CBS to call Games 1 and 5 of the 1933 World Series after commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis declared that CBS' Ted Husing and NBC's Graham McNamee could not call World Series play-by-play because they hadn't called any regular season games. Hoey was removed from the CBS broadcast during the fourth inning of Game 1 after his voice gave out on the air. Although he was subsequently reported as having suffered from a cold, Hoey's garbled and incoherent speech led many listeners to think he was drunk. After this incident, Hoey never went into a broadcast booth without a tin of throat lozenges. The 1934 World Series broadcasts were the first to be sponsored, with Ford giving US$50,000 each to CBS and NBC. Commissioner Landis barred Detroit Tigers announcer Ty Tyson from appearing on network radio, citing the risk of partiality in his commentary; however, after Tigers fans sent in more than 600,000 letters of protest, Landis agreed to allow Tyson to call the Series locally on Detroit station WWJ. In 1939, Mutual and Gillette signed an agreement purchasing exclusive broadcast and sponsorship rights to the World Series for US$100,000. A special promotion of Gillette razors and blueblades sold four times better than preliminary estimates, leading the company to secure additional sports sponsorships. The Gillette stable of sports broadcasts, which aired under the umbrella title of Gillette Cavalcade of Sports, spanned several different networks (including NBC, CBS, and Mutual radio) and grew to include not only ongoing sponsorship of baseball's World Series and All-Star Game but also the annual Kentucky Derby in horseracing, the Rose Bowl Game and other college football games, and professional boxing. Mutual continued as the exclusive World Series radio network through 1956, while Gillette's exclusive sponsorship of the event extended into the early television era and continued until the late 1950s. 1920s Notes Before radio, reporters would telegraph World Series info to centers where game boards were set up to display to thousands. The 1921 World Series was broadcast over radio stations KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, WBZ in Springfield, Massachusetts, and WJZ in Newark, New Jersey. KDKA's coverage, featuring play-by-play commentary from Grantland Rice, was live, direct, and exclusive from the Polo Grounds. Meanwhile, WBZ and WJZ coverage was relayed and re-created by