The first MLB game was broadcast on Aug. 26, 1939, launching what's now the multi-billion dollar industry of televised sports.
But the event launched what's now the multi-billion dollar industry of televised sports.
The NFL alone, the most valuable sports league in the world, generates more than $3 billion per season in TV rights, according to Forbes.The NFL was formed in 1920 when 10 football teams came together in Canton, Ohio, and started the American Professional Football Association , now known as the NFL. The 1939 World's Fair took place at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in the New York City borough of Queens. It's the site today of Arthur Ashe Stadium and the U.S. Open, and it's right next to Citi Field, home of the National League New York Mets.
The fair lasted more than a year, over two seasons, from April 1939 to October 1940, and was attended by up to 50 million people, according to various estimates. The first televised baseball game, August 26, 1939. Bucky Walters of the Cincinnati Reds pitched a two-hit game against the Brooklyn Dodgers and helped himself along by scoring one of the Reds' runs in the big eighth inning. The Reds scored all of th
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