Baseball's First Televised Game Turns 70

Date.................................................August 26, 1939

Site..................................................Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, NY

Game..............Cincinnati Reds 5, Brooklyn Dodgers 2

Announcer............................................Red Barber

Range of Broadcast..............................Approx. 50 miles

Number of Viewers..............................Approx. 100 homes

Cameras Used....2 (behind home plate and upper deck 3B)

Source - National Cartwright Day and the First Televised Major League Game. Frank Ardolino in The Baseball Research Journal, Vol. 37, 2008.

Printed in NY Daily News - August 26, 2009