Peter Edward Rose Sr. (April 14, 1941 – September 30, 2024), also
known by his nickname "Charlie Hustle", was an American
professional baseball player and manager. He played in Major
League Baseball from 1963 to 1986.
Rose died at his home in Las Vegas today. He had attended an
autograph event in Franklin, Tennessee on Sunday.
On September 30, 1947, the New York Yankees beat the
Brooklyn Dodgers, 5-3, in Game 1 of the World Series—
the first Fall Classic game broadcast on television.
It is the second "Subway Series" between and Yankees
and Dodgers and first World Series to involve an African
American player. Jackie Robinson (below) of the Dodgers
broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier six months
earlier.
While Red Barber and Mel Allen called the game on the
radio, Bob Stanton described the action on NBC.
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Jerry Lee Lewis (September 29, 1935 – October 28, 2022)
was an American pianist, singer and songwriter.
Nicknamed "The Killer", he was described as "rock ‘n’
roll‘s first great wild man". A pioneer of rock and roll
and rockabilly music, Lewis made his first recordings
in 1952.
On September 28, 1941, the last day of Major League Baseball’s
regular season, the Boston Red Sox’s Ted Williams got six hits
in eight at-bats during a doubleheader in Philadelphia, boosting
his average to .406. He becomes the first player since 1930 to hit
.400. "I guess I’ll be satisfied with that thrill out there today," he
tells the Boston Globe about hitting .400. "… I never wanted
anything harder in my life."
On August 26, 1939, the first televised Major League baseball
game was broadcast on station W2XBS, the station that was
to become WNBC-TV. Announcer Red Barber called the game
between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at
Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York.
The Reds won the first, 5–2 while the Dodgers won the second,
6–1.
This all started in April of 1939 with the opening of The World’s
Fair, when David Sarnoff told the nation that RCA had “added
radio sight to sound”, and officially kicked off the age of
television.
Barber (in suit) called the first game on NBC Radio and
moved over to TV for the second game.
The President of RCA, David Sarnoff, dedicating the RCA
Building at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York.
