KEEPING SCORE - Before the coming of radio, major league baseball was followed only in the newspapers. The local paper didn't give much coverage to the northern game. There was a keen interest in the World Series every October. The telegraphers of Western Union ran a wire to a theater or some other convenient place to keep fans informed. (Such as the board showing the scores in the 1912 World Series) The play by play of each game was telegraphed over the entire country. A local announcer would announce each play. Everyone had time to comment or react in the intervals between plays. With the perfection of radio, the telegraphed games faded into obscurity. Seven Ways to Cross, Marshall Chapman, 1971, p. 18.
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