Broadcasting Baseball: A History of the National Pastime on Radio and Television
- There is a long-standing relationship between broadcasting and sports, and nowhere is this more evident than in the marriage of baseball and radio: a slow sport perfectly suited to the word-painting of broadcasters. This work covers the development of the baseball broadcasting industry from the first telegraph reports of games in progress, the influence of early pioneers at Pittsburgh's KDKA and Chicago's WGN, including the first World Series broadcast, the launch of the Telstar Satellite, the Carlton Fisk homerun in the 1975 World Series, which changed how baseball is broadcast, through the latest computer graphics, HD television, and the Internet.
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Larceny and Old Leather
- ...is baseball at its best and worst—a unique, informative, and often humorous glimpse into some of the secret and not-so-secret dirty tricks, thefts, vaudeville pranks, and just plain cheating that dot the long, colorful history of America's most beloved game.
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The Playmasters
- From Sellouts to Lockouts—an Unauthorized History of the NBA.
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The 100 Greatest Sports Blunders of All Time
- This revealing book exposes some of the most ill-advised moves in the history of American sports. Funny, compelling, and often controversial, it explores and ranks these dubious miscues from bottom to top, revealing scores of inside tales about the biggest names in sports history.
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