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    Another Brownie first: Hosting the first televised All-Star Game

    Still controversey on this, but acc'd to Center Field Shot: A History of Baseball on Television - James R. Walker, Robert V. Bellamy

    Another Browns first ... PERHAPS: the first televised All Star game.

    More research needs to be done. See link:


    Center Field Shot
    http://books.google.com/books?id=6kPQhpS-X8YC&pg=PA89&lpg=PA89&dq=1948+KSD+all-star+game&source=bl&ots=jn2PHEP8lC&sig=ZYJmExLPm27syuS7PtCvtetJcT8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QUH4UMqdGvCA0AGewYD4Ag&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=1948%20KSD%20all-star%20game&f=false
    In Baseball Weekly?s list of things that most affected baseball in the twentieth century, television ranked second?behind only the signing of Jackie Robinson. The new medium of television exposed baseball to a genuinely national audience; altered the financial picture for teams, owners, and players; and changed the way Americans followed the game. Center Field Shot explores these changes?all even more prominent in the first few years of the twenty-first century?and makes sense of their meaning for America?s pastime. øCenter Field Shot traces a sometimes contentious but mutually beneficial relationship from the first televised game in 1939 to the new era of Internet broadcasts, satellite radio, and high-definition TV, considered from the perspective of businessmen collecting merchandising fees and advertising rights, franchise owners with ever more money to spend on talent, and broadcasters trying to present a game long considered ?unfriendly? to television. Ultimately the association of baseball with television emerges as a reflection of?perhaps even a central feature of?American culture at large.
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