Center field shot
Subtitle: a history of baseball on television
By: James R. Walker and Robert V. Bellamy Jr.
Contributors: Bellamy, Robert V.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9780803248250
Subjects: Television broadcasting of sports -- United States -- History.; Baseball -- United States -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: The experimental years; value: The first seasons of televised baseball; value: Team approaches to television in the broadcast era; value: Televising the world series; value: Origins of the game of the week; value: The national television package, 1966-89; value: National broadcasts in the cable era; value: The pay television era; value: Television as threat, television as savior; value: Television and the "death" of the golden age minors; value: Baseball, television, Congress, and the law; value: Baseball and television synergy; value: The announcer in the television age; value: Innovations in production practices; value: Baseball in the advanced media age.