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Aug 26, 1939:
Lights, cameras, baseball
On this day in 1939, television station W2XBS in New York City
broadcasts a doubleheader between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the
Cincinnati Reds from Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. The game, filmed
with two cameras, was the first Major League Baseball game ever
aired on television.
W2XBS in Manhattan, a trailblazing television station owned by
NBC, was the first to broadcast not just baseball, but college
and professional football in 1939 and hockey and basketball in
1940. The station's first foray into baseball broadcasting came
in May 1939 when it aired a game between Columbia and Princeton
universities from Baker Field in upper Manhattan-using just one
camera that was essentially unable to follow the game as well as
the naked eye. Three months later for the major league game, a
second camera was added in order to better follow the action on
the field. The first was placed by the visitor's dugout down the
third base line; the second camera was in the stands directly
behind home plate. Newspapers reported that the ball could be
seen leaving the pitcher's hand on the way to home plate some of
the time, a dramatic improvement over the first broadcast at
Columbia.
Red Barber, the long-time radio voice of the Dodgers, also called
the game for the broadcast. In the first game, Reds ace pitcher
Bucky Walters flummoxed the Dodgers, holding them to just two
hits in a 5-2 win. The Dodgers got their revenge in the second
game with a 6-1 victory. In that second game, Dodger pitcher Hugh
Casey snagged his ninth win with help from first baseman Dolf
Camilli, who hit a two-run game-winning home run, his 22nd of the
year, in the second inning.
The game was broadcast from New York City's Empire State
Building, completed just eight years earlier, and could be seen
in homes up to 50 miles away.
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