Soccer, Sports and Politics - Part Deux

By the by....do any of you remember listening to games that were relayed by Tickertape?

 

Are you serious? Never even heard of it.

 

Newsreels before the double feature.

 

It's how Dutch Reagan got his start in show business.

 

This is what happened in The Sting

 

Baseball broadcasting traced from its dots-and-dashes ...
In Italy, a boy named Guglielmo Marconi discovered ``wireless'' - he began sending the dots and dashes through the air, without any limitations by connecting wires.

The first public usage of wireless was in a sports event. In 1899, an Irish newspaper, the Dublin Daily Express, had Marconi take his equipment to sea to cover firsthand an important yacht race, the Kingstown Regatta.