August 26, 1939

[frankbmd]

A date that will live in infamy, to borrow a phrase, when the first Major League Baseball game was televised. And yes this would be a trivia question if I knew the answer, but that is not the question. Dig a little deeper and you will find that the Lions and Tigers played the first televised baseball game earlier in 1939. But everybody knows that the Lions were from Columbia and the Tigers were from Princeton.

As a kid in the 50s I survived with only the game of the week with ol' Diz and Pee Wee doing the play by play. I believe also that the majority of the Yankee games were available on TV in the New York market in that time frame.

Today and for some time with ESPN and more recently the MLB network, not an inning or play goes unnoticed by a camera. To be sure there are black outs and all games are not televised in all markets, but here is the question.

When was the most recent regularly scheduled major league game played with absolutely no video recording, whether it was broadcast live or not? In other words, no live TV, no highlights on the late news, no web gems, no internet video, nada. A game in which Babe Ruth could have hit his 715th home run with no video evidence to celebrate the fete.

As I said at the top, this may be trivia, but I do not know the answer, nor could I find the answer easily with several search attempts. I suspect there will be more than one answer provided here, so a date and some sort of proof or reference would be nice.