Sporting News October 3,1951 Harry Caray And Mel Allen Named top play by play Broadcasters.Caray with the St. Louis Cardinals And Mel Allen voice of the New York Yankees. It would be Carays fourth award and Allen’s sixth. Both of these men were different and iconic in their own right. Unlike Mel Allen who served…
The Giants’ 3-1 victory over the Dodgers in the first game of the National League playoffs is the first major league contest to be televised coast-to-coast. CBS, who obtained rights to the game, transmits the picture from Ebbets Field but has to get the signal from ABC, who had made previous arrangements with WOR-TV, the New York station which carried Brooklyn’s regular season games.
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