Listened to game 7 (world series is a best of 7) on this radio:

The Chicago Cubs just won their first title in 108 years. There was something about a curse of a billy goat that kept them from winning it for so long... That a fan brought his goat to a game and the ballpark wouldn't let him in with the goat.... Why someone thought that he could bring a goat is beyond me.

I once talked to guys at the blind home. One of them - quite a character - would talk of listening to the baseball games on the radio and how they would have the (appealing to him) "network sound". I wondered what he meant -- but guess his keen aural processing could discriminate the sonic characteristics of when the station switched from local to network: This was, of course, when all long distance radio-quality links were analogue. Perhaps he liked the slightly higher noise floor as well as the reduced bandwidth and all those transformers and passive equalisers on the Telco circuits?

Australian listeners in the 50s & 60s would know the "Cricket sound" of live matches from England via commercial-grade Shortwave link, as well as land based Telco circuits (talk about elevated noise floor)(and no Ray Dolby with his noise reduction).

Australian listeners in the 50s & 60s would know the "Cricket sound" of live matches from England

I can well remember as a young kid in the 1950s hearing reports from Britain and other countries during radio news bulletins. The sound would fade in and out. I asked my parents why that was and they said it's because the report is coming via undersea cable. I imagined the sea waves causing the fading.

Yes I recall the 1950's broadcasts. They were actually re-broadcasts of HF (short-wave) radio, hence the fading. If they had been using undersea cable there would have been no fading, but even the ABC wouldn't have been able to afford the cable time in those days.

In the 1930's they did "synthetic cricket broadcasts"....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AR6k7II1aY

How we take technology for granted! It's also great that AM radio continues on, even with crippled, poorly.maintained transmitters in some cases.
Notable exceptions are the transmitters in the swampy areas near Sydney's Olympic Park. 702 with 50Kw reaches most of the state in daylight hours.

Until someone comes up with a way to use those otherwise-useless frequencies from 05MHz to 1.5MHz, anyway.

Band 1 TV is currently in that category AFAIK.

When you consider the torturous concatenation that was network radio's signal path, it's a puzzle why it sounds "better".
Yet I liked music recorded on cassettes from broadcast (a further piling-on of noise and distortion!)
Then if one was enticed to buy the actual record, the music appeal seemed to be missing something?
Could it be the brain's neural decoding likes a little (random) background noise?
Like how adding noise reduces quantisation-errors in in A>D encoding!

Speaking of grungy sound that has appeal, I'm watching film "Rock, Rock, Rock" (1956): Its sound quality is about par with a telephone connection, but I like it. In it Chuck Berry sings his song "You Can't Catch Me" (super! never heard it before). I'm thinking it sounds like Beatles' "Come Together" 13 years later. I was right; turns out they sued the Beatles and settled out of court!