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Blast From the Past | Baseball, Radio, and TV
Topic: Technology 1:03 pm EDT, Jul 14, 2002

This new radio craze is already crimping attendance. ... And next we will have the whole works shot to pieces because instead of mere sound, the radio will be producing in every home that has a [set] the picture of the play. ...

Then what will become of baseball? Nobody will actually see Ruth and Sisler in action except the bored operators of the wireless picture-producing machine. ...

The magnates won't have to worry about taking care of their crowds, their concrete grand stands will be torn down and the business of baseball will be collecting a fee for supplying the action that is reproduced on the parlor wall instead of counting the gate.

-- The Sporting News, April 27, 1922

In another era, technology and entertainment collide in a public display of creative destruction. Could the music industry learn a thing or two from the history of baseball?

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