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Monday Night Baseball was born on October 19, 1966, when NBC signed a three-year contract to televise the game. Under the deal, NBC paid roughly $6 million per year for the 25 Games of the Week, $6.1 million for the 1967 World Series and 1967 All-Star Game, and $6.5 million for the 1968 World Series and 1968 All-Star Game.
quarterback American football: One who directs or leads; a mastermind; also used as a verb, to quarterback. It is also used as a term for a supporter or critic of a team or game, and by extension, an uninvolved observer who criticizes or second-guesses; see Monday morning quarterback, above. In American football, the quarterback is the player ...
By 1986, ABC only televised 13 Monday Night Baseball games. This was a fairly sharp contrast to the 18 games that were scheduled in 1978. The Sporting News believed that ABC paid Major League Baseball to not make them televise the regular season. TSN added that the network only wanted the sport for October anyway.
PANTHERS: Stanley Cup champ Cats nine days from NHL opener: The Panthers are 3-2 in the preseason after Saturday’s win vs. Carolina, with three practice games left starting Monday vs. Tampa. The ...
The sound of the bat hitting the ball. The term is used in baseball to mean "immediately, without hesitation". For example, a baserunner may start running "on the crack of the bat", as opposed to waiting to see where the ball goes. Outfielders often use the sound of bat-meeting-ball as a clue to how far a ball has been hit.
Dodgers pitcher Landon Knack delivers during a game against the Giants in July. Knack is among the Dodgers players who are more than happy to keep celebrating the team's World Series title.
ABC then televised MLB games from 1976 to 1989, airing Monday Night Baseball, Thursday Night Baseball, and Sunday Afternoon Baseball in various years during that period. MLB games aired on ABC again in 1994 and 1995 as part of The Baseball Network , the short-lived time-brokered package of broadcasts produced by Major League Baseball and split ...
Drew Esocoff, quarterback of NBC's "Sunday Night Football" broadcast, is the director of prime time’s No. 1 television show in all key metrics for an unprecedented 13th consecutive year.