Title: Center field shot
Description: Center Field Shot traces a sometimes contentious but mutually beneficial relationship from the first televised game in 1939 to the new era of Internet broadcasts, satellite radio, and high-definition tv, considered from the perspective of businessmen collecting merchandising fees and advertising rights, franchise owners with ever more money to spend on talent, and broadcasters trying to present a game long considered "unfriendly" to television. Ultimately the association of baseball with television emerges as a reflection of - perhaps even a central feature of - American culture at large.
Subjects: Baseball, History, Television broadcasting of sports, Television, Sports & Recreation, Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy, Sports, Baseball - History, Journalism, Television - History & Criticism, Sports & Recreation / Baseball / History, Baseball, history
Places: United States