WEAF broadcast on 660; if you aren't from NYC and its environs this is the current home of WFAN, the radio home of the New York Yankees. As WFAN they also carried the World Series as they were affiliated with CBS radio and ESPN radio up until ESPN got their own New York affiliate in 2001. As WNBC they broadcast the World Series when the NBC radio network had the rights 1957-74.
In a similar vein, when the Mets were born in 1962 they took over spots on the dial that the Dodgers left behind in 1958 (1050 and Channel 9)
Can't help you on the pantomime game. I wonder if someone with a megaphone had to call out the result before the players acted it out -- otherwise the audience wouldn't know where to look on the field. (Now that I think about it, I guess they'd have to do that anyway for the players, assuming they stayed on the field between plays.) Other notes: the "fifth inning" news article, if anyone missed it, was just a new headline placed over the pregame preview. (Circa 1960 in San Francisco, the afternoon Call-Bulletin would print a Giants' line score as of the time they went to press -- in a shaded box, IIRC -- above the fold on the front page in their newsstand edition. Can't remember whether there were highlights or a specific headline. At the time I imagined them printing multiple new editions during the game. Probably not.) I wonder about that "moving picture reproduction": stock film footage of, say, a grounder to short? Hard for me to imagine the number of film clips you'd need to do it right, since the runners on base had to match. Or was it just an animated version of the X-and-O reproductions in store windows?
This took place not that long ago when considering time as a whole. It's a reminder how fortunate we are to be able to see what takes place in real time, even if thousands of miles away, or recent history.
Radio was made for baseball; or is it the other way around. :)
WEAF broadcast on 660; if you aren't from NYC and its environs this is the current home of WFAN, the radio home of the New York Yankees. As WFAN they also carried the World Series as they were affiliated with CBS radio and ESPN radio up until ESPN got their own New York affiliate in 2001. As WNBC they broadcast the World Series when the NBC radio network had the rights 1957-74.
In a similar vein, when the Mets were born in 1962 they took over spots on the dial that the Dodgers left behind in 1958 (1050 and Channel 9)
Can't help you on the pantomime game. I wonder if someone with a megaphone had to call out the result before the players acted it out -- otherwise the audience wouldn't know where to look on the field. (Now that I think about it, I guess they'd have to do that anyway for the players, assuming they stayed on the field between plays.) Other notes: the "fifth inning" news article, if anyone missed it, was just a new headline placed over the pregame preview. (Circa 1960 in San Francisco, the afternoon Call-Bulletin would print a Giants' line score as of the time they went to press -- in a shaded box, IIRC -- above the fold on the front page in their newsstand edition. Can't remember whether there were highlights or a specific headline. At the time I imagined them printing multiple new editions during the game. Probably not.) I wonder about that "moving picture reproduction": stock film footage of, say, a grounder to short? Hard for me to imagine the number of film clips you'd need to do it right, since the runners on base had to match. Or was it just an animated version of the X-and-O reproductions in store windows?
This took place not that long ago when considering time as a whole. It's a reminder how fortunate we are to be able to see what takes place in real time, even if thousands of miles away, or recent history.
Normally, I say "That's interesting" when I see your email, but this time I find myself saying "That's weird....." :-)