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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.
Then on weeks in which NBC had Monday Night Baseball, Gowdy and Garagiola worked together. One would call play-by-play for 4½ innings, the other would handle color analysis. Then in the bottom of the 5th inning, their roles switched. In 1976, ABC picked up the television rights [89] for Monday Night Baseball [90] games from NBC. For most of ...
On June 28, 1976, the Detroit Tigers faced the New York Yankees on Monday Night Baseball, with 47,855 attending at Tiger Stadium and a national television audience, Tigers pitcher Mark "The Bird" Fidrych [54] talked to the ball and groomed the mound, as the Tigers won, 5–1 in a game that lasted only 1 hour and 51 minutes. After the game, the ...
The Los Angeles Dodgers are looking for their first World Series trip since 2020 when they try to close out the New York Mets in Game 5 of the National League Championship Series Friday afternoon ...
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 ...
Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani heads to third as Freddie Freeman grounds into a double play to end the third inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024, in ...
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