03353nam 2200601Ia 450 991045157320332120200520144314.01-281-24133-497866112413390-8032-1765-X(CKB)1000000000483930(EBL)332858(OCoLC)476135451(SSID)ssj0000119294(PQKBManifestationID)11132338(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000119294(PQKBWorkID)10057342(PQKB)11200826(MiAaPQ)EBC332858(Au-PeEL)EBL332858(CaPaEBR)ebr10216997(CaONFJC)MIL124133(EXLCZ)99100000000048393020071004d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCenter field shot[electronic resource] a history of baseball on television /James R. Walker and Robert V. Bellamy JrLincoln University of Nebraska Pressc20081 online resource (402 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8032-4825-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Game in the Box; Part 1: The Local Game; 1. The Experimental Years; 2. The First Seasons of Televised Baseball; 3. Team Approaches to Televisionin the Broadcast Era; Part 2: The National Game; 4. Televising the World Series; 5. Origins of the Game of the Week; 6. The National Television Package, 1966-89; 7. National Broadcasts in the Cable Era; 8. The Pay Television Era; Part 3: Television and Baseball's Dysfunctional Marriage; 9. Television As Threat, Television As Savior10. Television and the "Death" of the Golden Age Minors11. Baseball, Television, Congress, and the Law; 12. Baseball and Television Synergy; Part 4: How the Game Was Covered; 13. The Announcer in the Television Age; 14. Innovations in Production Practices; Epilogue: Baseball in the Advanced Media Age; Appendix A: Televised Baseball Games, 1949-81; Notes; IndexCenter 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.Television broadcasting of sportsUnited StatesHistoryBaseballUnited StatesHistoryElectronic books.Television broadcasting of sportsHistory.BaseballHistory.070.4/497960973Walker James R103898Bellamy Robert V855437MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451573203321Center field shot1909705UNINA