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[UNKNOWN]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: On this day, August 26, 1939, the first televised major league baseball game was broadcast from Ebbitt's field in Brooklyn.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The Cincinnati Reds played the Brooklyn Dodgers in a double header, and the game was shown on experimental television station W2XBS in New York.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Very few people had televisions at the time, so the audience was tiny, compared with modern sports broadcasts.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Still, it was an early glimpse of how television would eventually change sports, entertainment, and the way fans followed games from home.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Also on this day, August 26, 1843, Charles Thurber received the patent for an early typewriter, one of many inventions that helped lead to word modern writing machines.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Also on this day, August 26, 1959, the mini was introduced in Britain, becoming one of the most recognizable small cars ever made.