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|Date=05/07/39
|Name=First Televised Baseball Game: Princeton 2, Columbia 1
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|Type of Date=Day
|Date=1939/05/17
|Country=United States
|State=NY
|City=New York
|City=New York
|State=NY
|Description=<p>"The first baseball game ever telecast was a college, rather than a professional game. On May 17, 1939, NBC telecast a game between Princeton and Columbia to the few sets in operation in the New York City area."</p>
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<p>Bill Stern announced the game for radio channel W2XBS, which would become WABC-TV.</p>
|Name=First Televised Baseball Game: Princeton 2, Columbia 1
|Sources=<p>T. Brooks and E. March, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present (Randon House, Date?) page 89. Accessed in snippet view via Google Books search, 3/8/2010.</p>
|Description=<p>"The first baseball game ever telecast was a college, rather than a professional game. On May 17, 1939, NBC telecast a game between Princeton and Columbia to the few sets in operation in the New York City area."</p><p>Bill Stern announced the game for radio channel W2XBS, which would become WABC-TV.</p>
<p>See also the Wikipedia entry "Baseball Broadcasting Firsts,"[accessed 5/8/2012].</p>
|Sources=<p>T. Brooks and E. March, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present (Randon House, Date?) page 89. Accessed in snippet view via Google Books search, 3/8/2010.</p><p>See also the Wikipedia entry "Baseball Broadcasting Firsts,"[accessed 5/8/2012].</p>
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Date Wednesday, May 17, 1939
Location New York, NY, United States
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"The first baseball game ever telecast was a college, rather than a professional game. On May 17, 1939, NBC telecast a game between Princeton and Columbia to the few sets in operation in the New York City area."

Bill Stern announced the game for radio channel W2XBS, which would become WABC-TV.

Sources

T. Brooks and E. March, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present (Randon House, Date?) page 89. Accessed in snippet view via Google Books search, 3/8/2010.

See also the Wikipedia entry "Baseball Broadcasting Firsts,"[accessed 5/8/2012].


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