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September 22: This day in TV history

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50 years ago the Chicago White Sox clinched the A.L. Pennant in 1959. The game was telecast in it's entirety on WGN-TV 9 in Chicago. This was a bit unusual as the game was played in Cleveland and since WGN carried both Sox & Cubs home games. Jack Brickhouse traveled with the Sox to telecast the game on channel 9.
 
Also more TV-related baseball history on Sept. 22:

1966: The New York Yankees-Chicago White Sox afternoon game at Yankee Stadium attracts only 413 fans, the smallest crowd in the history of that stadium (with the Yankees on the verge of their first last-place season since 1912--only two years removed from their previous World Series appearance). Legendary Yankee broadcaster Red Barber told his TV audience that the small crowd was "the story, not the game," but Yankee officials refused Barber's request for the TV cameras to pan the empty seats. A week later, then-Yankee owners CBS fire Barber, which ends his 32-year MLB broadcasting career (first with the Cincinnati Reds, and then with the Brooklyn Dodgers before moving to the Yankees in 1954).

A great article on the story behind the Barber firing:

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/194884-the-yankees-didnt-like-the-truth
 
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