Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, NY, August 26, 1939 – First MLB game broadcast on TV between Reds & Dodgers



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One of the two cameras, or “electric eye” as it was called sometimes, is positioned by the visitors dugout for the first televised Major League baseball game in history. It would be for the second game of a doubleheader between the home team Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds. Earlier in May the National Broadcasting Company, eager to become the pioneer in sports broadcasting, televised a college baseball game using just one camera between Columbia and Princeton to mixed reviews. This time in Brooklyn they would use two cameras, the second one positioned in a box seat behind home plate.

The Dodgers behind a Dolph Camilli’s home run and three RBIs beat the Reds 6-1 to split the doubleheader. The Reds won the first game 5-2.

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