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: title: The experimental years; title: The first seasons of televised baseball; title: Team approaches to television in the broadcast era; title: Televising the world series; title: Origins of the game of the week; title: The national television package, 1966-89; title: National broadcasts in the cable era; title: The pay television era; title: Television as threat, television as savior; title: Television and the "death" of the golden age minors; title: Baseball, television, Congress, and the law; title: Baseball and television synergy; title: The announcer in the television age; title: Innovations in production practices; title: Baseball in the advanced media age.