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  2. History of baseball - Wikipedia

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    Block discovered that the first recorded game of "Base-Ball" took place in 1749 in Surrey, and featured the Prince of Wales as a player. [12] William Bray, an English lawyer, recorded a game of baseball on Easter Monday 1755 in Guildford, Surrey. [13] This early form of the game was apparently brought to Canada by English immigrants.

  3. Major League Baseball on the radio - Wikipedia

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    The first baseball game ever broadcast on radio was a Pittsburgh Pirates versus Philadelphia Phillies game on August 5, 1921. The game was broadcast by KDKA of Pittsburgh, and the Pirates defeated the Phillies 8-5. It was broadcast by KDKA staff announcer Harold Arlin.

  4. Baseball broadcasting firsts - Wikipedia

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    On August 26 of the same year, the first ever Major League Baseball game was televised once again on W2XBS. With Red Barber announcing, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds played a doubleheader at Ebbets Field. The Reds won the first game 5–2, while the Dodgers won the second game 6–1.

  5. 64 years ago today, the 1st MLB game was broadcast in color

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    It was exactly 64 years ago that the first baseball game was broadcast on television in color. WCBS-TV in New York City broadcast the Boston Braves beating the Brooklyn Dodgers by an 8-1 score.

  6. Today in History: 1st televised baseball game - AOL

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    The first MLB telecast was aired on Aug. 26, 1939, and was actually a double-header between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Cincinnati Reds. The teams split the two-game set. W2XBS had the game in ...

  7. History of baseball in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The earliest known mention of baseball in the United States is either a 1786 diary entry by a Princeton University student who describes playing "baste ball," [1] or a 1791 Pittsfield, Massachusetts, ordinance that barred the playing of baseball within 80 yards (73 m) of the town meeting house and its glass windows. [2]

  8. Major League Baseball - Wikipedia

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    The first baseball game ever broadcast on radio was a Pittsburgh Pirates versus Philadelphia Phillies game on August 5, 1921. The game was broadcast by KDKA of Pittsburgh, and the Pirates defeated the Phillies 8–5. It was broadcast by KDKA staff announcer Harold Arlin.

  9. Origins of baseball - Wikipedia

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    The game was reported in the New York Morning News and True Sun, making it the first ever published baseball result. The New Yorks and Brooklyns played two more games on October 21 and 24, with the first on the New Yorks' home diamond at Elysian Fields and the rematch at the Star Cricket Grounds again.