MORE help for class - UPDATED with more begging

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It was the illuminated ticker that ran around the Times building at about the level of the third floor. Not sure what year it went up, but it's been there for generations. There's a relatively new, high-tech version of one across the street on the front of the ABC/GMA studio as well. And there's that big-screen Reuters streaming news panel just down the block - faster than a chalkboard, certainly, but proof that everything old is new again. Just a thought.

 

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If you are adverse to using DVDs and all the copyright BS I understand, but the scene in Eight Men Out where the gambler stays to hear the pitcher hit the first batter with a pitch would be pretty good.

In fact, Eight Men Out probably has a few scenes in it that shows the old way of listening to a game.

There is a scene in Bull Durham where the girl is relaying the information to the broadcaster who smacks to sticks together to make you fell like you are at the game.

In Ken Burns' Baseball I am sure there is tons of material. I am thinking about the writer describing how America followed the 56-game hit streak of Joe D.

 

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http://www.floridamemory.com/PhotographicCollection/photo_exhibits/images/baseball/rc10743_.jpg



http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/photo/ball/jpeg/ball1802.jpg



http://www.sandiegohistory.org/collections/sports/images/15747.jpg

 

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Joys of being on the West Coast means everyone gets first crack at a thread before you do.

Y'all seem to have taken care of the best images on the 'Net. Only good one I can offer is a close-up of an actual scoreboard that was used for 1921 World Series updates at the First National Bank in Cuba, N.Y.



93Devil makes a good point about the Arnold Rothstein scene before Game 1 in "Eight Men Out," where he shows up to watch the first pitch at a "World Series party." (Also, as a warning, there's another scene in "Eight Men Out" that you don't want to use, and that's when the kids are listening on the radio to the end of Game 6. That, of course, is Hollywood taking poetic license, since the first baseball game (World Series or otherwise) wasn't broadcast until 1921, and certainly not in popular use enough for kids to be listening in like that.)

 

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Moddy--
I never got an A in my life, and I'm not going to start now. Thanks for the offer, though.

 

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There's one in Burns's Baseball I can picture, but couldn't find on the net.
One is on Page 118 of the hardbound accompaniment book and one is on 139

 

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I know this is probably WAY too late, but I'll add these from the 1912 World Series for future reference if anyone's interested:

http://www.shorpy.com/node/4734

http://www.shorpy.com/node/4733

 

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That's an awesome vintage photography site, azom.

 

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Just spent half an hour going through some of the Dorthea Lange & Walker Evans photos. Fabulous stuff