Center field shot a history of baseball on television / [electronic resource] :
James R. Walker and Robert V. Bellamy Jr.
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008
- 1 online resource (xxi, 379 p.) : ill.
Description based on print version record
Includes bibliographical references and index
The experimental years -- The first seasons of televised baseball -- Team approaches to television in the broadcast era -- Televising the world series -- Origins of the game of the week -- The national television package, 1966-89 -- National broadcasts in the cable era -- The pay television era -- Television as threat, television as savior -- Television and the "death" of the golden age minors -- Baseball, television, Congress, and the law -- Baseball and television synergy -- The announcer in the television age -- Innovations in production practices -- Baseball in the advanced media age