Wednesday; June 8
A couple of weeks ago I watched a Division 3 Regional Baseball playoff game on my television in my office. While that might not sound too impressive, I want you to think about where I came from. While I don’t remember the initial television broadcasts of many of the major sporting events, I didn’t miss many of them by much. When I was a youngster, we had a black and white television set that might be able to pull in the three major networks (ABC, NBC, CBS). I watched the 1969 World Series between the Baltimore Orioles and the New York Mets on the first color television set we owned. Our remote control was typically telling the youngest member of the family to get up and change the channel. Not all of the channels came in clearly on the “rabbit ears” antenna, so it was often the task of the tallest person in the family to find the most effective place for the aerials to be place to get the best picture and the least amount of “snow”. (Now if you don’t understand any of these refe