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Broadcaster at microphone in a baseball stadium booth – Vintage Wall Art

Broadcaster at microphone in a baseball stadium booth — historic image
Broadcaster at microphone in a baseball stadium booth. Historic image from the Baseball collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This historic image of Broadcaster at microphone in a baseball stadium booth brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Broadcaster at microphone in a baseball stadium booth

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A radio announcer leans toward a microphone in a cramped booth high above a ballpark, the field stretching out beyond the glass. Booths like this one became standard in the 1920s and 1930s, when radio turned the play-by-play call into a daily ritual for fans who could not get to the ballpark. The announcer's job was to paint the game in words, often working from a telegraph feed when he was not at the stadium at all. Pictures of these broadcasters are worth a close look, since they show how a sport that was watched in person came to be heard by millions at home.

Original scan5,075 × 6,230 px · prints to 17 × 21 in at 300 dpi
Reference18791u

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