93-year-old John Miley of Evansville, Ind., has compiled the largest collection of sports broadcasts in the country. Miley began making recordings in 1947, while he was a high school student. Nearly eight decades later, his collection now includes more than 44,000 recordings of radio and TV sports broadcasts.

A new radio and television documentary from the WFIU/WTIU News team explores Miley’s extensive collection, which includes every Super Bowl, a half-century of the Kentucky Derby and Indianapolis 500 races, the World Series games from 1954 to the present, and more.

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