Camera Man Falls During Texas Rangers Game[Video]
It's playoff time for Major League baseball! Here is what happens when the cameraman gets too close to what is happening!!
It's playoff time for Major League baseball! Here is what happens when the cameraman gets too close to what is happening!!
This is the day that baseball’s TV era began. Up until then you could only listen on the radio or go to the game yourself. But in 1939, the first baseball game to be televised was broadcast from Ebbets Field in Brooklyn – a game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Red Barber did the play by play, but very few people were able to see the game because not very many people owned TV sets.
His name was Ray Chapman. He was a shortstop with the Cleveland Indians in 1920. He was one of the team’s major stars and their best infielder. But his name became a footnote in history when he became the first and only player in major league baseball to die after being hit by a baseball.
It happened at the Polo Grounds in New York City in a game against the Yankees. Chapman had a reputation for allowing himself to be hit by pitches and Yankees pitcher Carl Mays was a famous “bean ball” pitcher. It was recipe for disaster.