The History of How We Follow Baseball

1912, Boston Red Sox, New York Giants

"... He's just lucky he lives in this century. Its a luxury of modern sports that you can bring the game with you. Santorum was watching football on a small tablet; he could as easily have been streaming a ballgame over an iPhone, or watching a constantly-updated gamecast. Should he have had more discretion, he could at a minimum have peeked at scores over the web. A hundred years ago, sports fans -- read: baseball fans -- were not so lucky. In 1912, the Red Sox played the New York Giants in the World Series. Here's how people in Washington watched that game..."
The Atlantic, Oct. 2011 (Video)

The Washington Post

Action Jackson: Watching Baseball Remotely, Before TV
"With the weather turning crisp in October of 1916, sports fans across North America were looking forward to the World Series. There had been great pennant races in both leagues, and the upcoming battle between Brooklyn and the Boston Red Sox looked like a good one. Though Toronto was still more than sixty years away from joining the American League, interest there in the Series was high. The city was already a hotbed of minor-league baseball. Like most cities, Toronto once had a great many more newspapers that it does today. Among the most prominent in 1916 were the Star and the Globe— today’s lone survivors of this time period—as well as the Telegram, the World, and the News. All of them devoted a lot of copy to the upcoming Series."
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