[Swprograms] Telegraphic reproduction of baseball games

[Joel Rubin <jmrubin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've asked this question before, but now that the most famous
practitioner of this art has died, it seems time to ask it again.

At one time, bandwidth was so expensive that not only couldn't you
post a large binary in a non-binary group -) but it was too expensive
to get a broadcast-quality phone line to broadcast a Chicago Cubs game
over radio station WHO in Des Moines.

So, someone like Ronald Reagan would sit in the studio at WHO, reading
a telegraphed ball-by-ball description of the Cubs-Pirates game at
Forbes Field, and would dramatize what he read off the wire.

This is not a great art but it can be made exciting and informative or
it can be deadly dull. By all reports, Reagan was good at it. This
helped lead to his later career in Hollywood.

Well, anyway, I'd like to know if the telegraphic reproduction of the
San Francisco Giants game over WAAT in Hackensack, NJ, during the 1958
season, was the last such broadcast, and, since I was about 7 years
old, then, I should like to know the details.

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