Who did people root for prior to expansion?

[StraightRaceCards]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

For those of us of a certain age, radio was such a huge part of our lives.

Radio still is as far as baseball is concerned, thanks to the lackluster Bally Sports. I’d rather listen to the radio than pay Bally a dime.

[BioCRN]

Sidestepping, but staying in similar territory...some of us younger old people (late 40s here) got our taste of regular baseball from the early 1980s cable "Superstations."

WGN (Cubs), TBS (Braves), and WOR (Mets) fed huge parts of the nation regular baseball at a time where you might only see a few games a week on various stations unless you lived in an over-the-air team broadcast area.

I am very sure having WGN play so many day/afternoon games and not having to share the TV with other family members during those games had a huge part of me developing into a Cubs fan. Cubs day games didn't compete with the latest sitcoms, dramas, and mini-series.