CBS' Tim McCarver called the 1987 World Series in Minneapolis for ABC.
His memory of the Metrodome:
"The noise, the crowd noise," he said of the Minnesota Twins stadium, where the '91 World Series opens. "The noise in the Metrodome is a lot louder than in Toronto's SkyDome. That's because the noise can't go anywhere."But more troubling to the visitors will be the ceiling. Players have difficulty trying to play balls that come off the backdrop of the white ceiling.
"If Twins players Chuck Knoblauch and Kirby Puckett had difficulty with the ceiling in the playoffs, you know the visitors will. They ought to change the color. You can't take your eye off the ball or you'll lose it."
The din from the fans, and those homer hankies, helped spur the Twins to a sweep of their four home games in the seven-game '87 World Series triumph agaisnt the St. Louis Cardinals.
The Metrodome's noise quotient gets an affirmative vote from CBS Radio broadcaster Vin Scully. "You can't have enough noise at the ballpark as far as I'm concerned," says Scully, the Los Angeles Dodgers voice and former NBC announcer. "That's how I got into broadcasting. When I was a kid in New York, I used to curl up under a big radio, which was on legs. "I'd listen to Bill Stern, Ted Husing and Red Barber do football games. When the crowd roared, it came down on me like a showerhead. That's why I've always let the crowd roar on broadcasts longer than anyone. When Hank Aaron hit his 715th homer in 1974, there was nothing I had to say."