One of modern baseball’s most famous games is going to air again. The New York Mets’ radio flagship, 710 WOR-AM/New York, will re-air the entire radio broadcast of Game 7 of the 1986 World Series between the New York Mets and the Boston Red Sox, to celebrate its 30th anniversary.
The broadcast airs Thursday, October 27, at 6:00 p.m. ET, with a 60-minute pre-show hosted by WOR’s Sports Zone host Pete McCarthy, and a slew of special guests. Then the game begins, again, at 7:00 p.m.
“The Mets’ dramatic victory in game six of the 1986 World Series forced a seventh and final game originally scheduled for the following night. Rain, however postponed that game for 24 hours,” said Mets broadcaster Howie Rose. One full extra day of frazzled nerves meant roughly forty-eight hours to contemplate how a season of utter dominance would ultimately be remembered. Allow [original callers] Bob Murphy and Gary Thorne to demonstrate how, 30 years after the fact, it’s possible to summon those same anxious feelings which culminated in the happiest recap imaginable.”
