-This is the earliest World Series broadcast in the lot of pristine New York recordings I've found on reel to reel tapes. Game 2 of the 1964 World Series saw the Yankees send rookie Mel Stottlemyre against Bob Gibson. Stottlemyre would pitch two more games in the Series and would be the last active member of the 64 pennant winning team until his release in the spring of 1975 just one year before the Yankees would return to the Series.

-Joe Garagiola and Phil Rizzuto call the game on NBC Radio. Mel Allen had been fired by the Yankees before the end of the season and they did not want him to work the Series so Rizzuto was named as the Yankee rep (coincidentally, Garagiola would replace Allen in the Yankee booth the next season). In the Series itself there was an unusual rotation arrangement where Garagiola and Rizzuto did the games on radio in St. Louis and on TV in New York while Harry Caray and Curt Gowdy were on TV in St. Louis and radio in New York. This recording is from WNBC and we briefly hear the end of a pregame show done by Bill Mazer who had a sports talk show on WNBC at the time. But these NBC radio broadcasts were also simulcast on the Yankee flagship station WCBS as well.

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