{"id":6768,"date":"2026-08-26T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6768"},"modified":"2025-12-15T22:19:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T03:19:45","slug":"baseball-games-were-televised-for-the-first-time-in-1939","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6768","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Games Were Televised for the First Time in 1939"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Baseball games were televised for the first time in 1939.<\/strong> New York\u2019s WXBS broadcast a double header between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Red Barber was the announcer. Few people had televisions then, but the event made experts realize the power of broadcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baseball games were televised for the first time in 1939. New York\u2019s WXBS broadcast a double header between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Red Barber was the announcer. Few people had televisions then, but the event made experts realize the power of broadcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5624,5811,1324,1328,1327,1326,1325],"class_list":["post-6768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5624","tag-august-26","tag-baseball-games-first-televised","tag-brooklyn-dodgers","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-red-barber","tag-wxbs","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10665,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768\/revisions\/10665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}