2ZB Is First Station To Broadcast Softball

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 29, 30 December 1938, Page 3

2ZB Is First Station To Broadcast Softball

TO outdoor ‘sport has ‘ever leaped: to popularity . in New’ Zealand as suddenly as ‘baseball has. ‘Two years ago there were only one or. two scattered teams playing the game in a few of the main centres, This summer literally thousands are playing it, and- baseball hag become a serious’ rival to cricket. as & summer pastime. _. The game ag played in New. Bea: land is strictly’ an adaptation of. true baseball: and is known. as softball. In’ every other respect, however, the game conforms to. the game which has so: many thou-. ‘sands: of: followers in America, Gentre in which: softball | has securéd its strongest hold is | . Wellington, where ~ nearly 50 teams play the game-every Sat-. urday in. organised competition, and first radio station in. New Zealand.to cater. for followers of the game with regular ‘commentaries is 2ZB, which broadcasts these every Saturday. The description is done by W. H. Wilson, an executive of the Wellington Softbail Association, who was one of those responsible for introducing softball to New. Zealand. Mr. Wilson knows his softball backwards, and gives. listeners an excelient idéa of the spectacular nature of the game.