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)
SABR - Action Jackson: Watching Baseball Remotely, Before TV
Baseball Games Re-Created in Radio Studios
2010 September: Baseball scorekeeping
2010 December: 1919 World Series - Black Sox Scandal
2011 September: Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
2011 May: The Black Sox Trial - 1921
2012 June: Kenesaw Mountain Landis
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