Center Field Shot 

     Center Field Shot:  A History of Baseball on Television by James R. Walker and Robert V. Bellamy, Jr. is the first history of Major League Baseball’s stormy relationship with the television industry.

      In a 1999 article, Baseball Weekly listed television as the second most important development affecting baseball in the 20th century.  Only Jackie Robinson’s breaking of the color barrier in 1947 was viewed as a more significant event.  In the seven decades since the first televised game in the United States, no single volume has focused on the often dysfunctional marriage between baseball and television.  

      Center Field Shot was written for both students of sports television and the thoughtful baseball fan.  The book includes 36 photographs and illustrations.

     Please click on a chapter to read an excerpt:  Introduction, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, Epilogue.

       Center Field Shot is a winner. It's smart, crisply written, and packed with eye-opening research and analysis. I learned something new on every page. Turn off the TV and start reading. I guarantee you'll be glad you did.

Jonathan Eig,
best-selling author of 
Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig &
Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season

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