Broadcasting Baseball: A History of the National Pastime on Radio and Television

Eldon L. Ham

Broadcasting Baseball: A History of the National Pastime on Radio and Television
Format
Paperback
Publisher
McFarland & Co Inc
Country
United States
Published
19 July 2011
Pages
280
ISBN
9780786446445

Broadcasting Baseball: A History of the National Pastime on Radio and Television

Eldon L. Ham

There is a long-standing relationship between broadcasting and sports, and nowhere is this more evident than in the marriage of baseball and radio: a slow sport perfectly suited to the word-painting of broadcasters. This work covers the development of the baseball broadcasting industry from the first telegraph reports of games in progress, the influence of early pioneers at Pittsburgh’s KDKA and Chicago’s WGN, including the first World Series broadcast, the launch of the Telstar Satellite, the Carlton Fisk homerun in 1975 World Series, which changed how baseball is broadcast, through New Millenium computer graphics, HD television, and the Internet.

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