 In 1933, Hoey was hired by CBS Radio to call Games 1 and 5 of the World Series after commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis declared that Ted Husing and Graham McNamee could not call World Series games because they did not call any regular season games.Hoey was removed from the CBS broadcasting booth during the fourth inning of game one after his voice went out.Although reported as a cold, Hoey's garbled and incoherent words led many to think that Hoey was drunk.