KCBC had the contract to broadcast the Iowa Oaks professional baseball games, but it was too cheap to send its sportscaster, a nice young guy named Steve Shannon, on the road with the team. So whenever the Oaks were in Denver or Oklahoma City or wherever, Shannon and I would go out to the KCBC studio—really just a tin hut standing beside a tall transmitter tower in a farmer’s field somewhere southeast of Des Moines—and he would broadcast from there as if he were in Omaha.
