When Watching Baseball on TV Was the Future

In 1939, the first Major League Baseball game was broadcast on TV--a double-header between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers--at a time when American TV was still very much an experiment. But this broadcast was a long time coming. In fact, years before practical TV tech had even been demonstrated, people were already dreaming about how they'd be able to watch America's pastime from the comfort of their own homes.