Other firsts in baseball/Event 4

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Year	1939
Month	5
Date	17
City	New York
State	NY
Country	US
Description	First Televised Baseball Game

"The first baseball game ever telecast was a college, rather than a professional game. On May 17, 1939, NBC telecast a game between Princeton and Columbia to the few sets in operation in the New York City area."

T. Brooks and E. March, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present (Randon House, Date?) page 89. Accessed in snippet view via Google Books search, 3/8/2010.