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Major League Baseball on Mutual was the de facto title of the Mutual Broadcasting System's (MBS) national radio coverage of Major League Baseball games. Mutual's coverage came about during the Golden Age of Radio in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. During this period, television sports broadcasting was in its infancy, and radio was still the main ...
Under the new deal, NBC paid roughly $6 million per year for 25 Saturday games and prime-time contests on Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Labor Day; $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. This brought the total value of the contract (which included ...
George Alvin "Al" Helfer (September 26, 1911 – May 16, 1975) was an American radio sportscaster.. Nicknamed "Mr. Radio Baseball", Helfer called the play-by-play of seven World Series, ten All-Star Games, and regular season broadcasts for several teams (among them the New York Yankees, Brooklyn Dodgers and Oakland Athletics) and the Mutual and NBC networks.
Opening Day is the day on which professional baseball leagues begin their regular season. For Major League Baseball (MLB) and most of the American minor leagues , this day typically falls during the first week of April, although in recent years it has occasionally fallen in the last week of March.
The Major League Baseball playoffs began Tuesday with four games in the best-of-three wild-card series, with the winners already on the verge of advancing to the Division Series.
Minor League Baseball (MiLB) is a professional baseball organization below Major League Baseball (MLB), constituted of teams affiliated with MLB clubs. It was founded on September 5, 1901, in response to the growing dominance of the National League and American League, as the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (NAPBL or NA).
NBC [43] [44] would then pick up where ABC left off by televising six more regular season Friday night [45] [46] games. Every Baseball Night in America game was scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. Eastern Time (or 8 p.m. Pacific Time if the game occurred on the West Coast [47]). A single starting time gave the networks the opportunity to broadcast one ...
Baseball has undergone so much overhaul in recent decades, it's become hard to keep track. But one of the biggest advancements in the game's history took place on this day in 1951.