Youth Baseball Parks Blog

I just received Instant Replay: The Day That Changed Sports Forever in the mail. The author, Tony Verna tells the story of how he conceived of and executed the first instant replay in a zinc-plated, vacuum-tubed culture. His tape machine weighed a ton, and there was no way of cuing tapes. He had to invent a way to make a machine do something it wasn’t meant to do.

For fifty years, Verna directed major television events and he tells the story of his life in broadcasting. Having spent some time in production trucks, it’s amazing how much broadcasting changed since his invention. It’s a nice gift for someone interested in the history of broadcasting.

Source:Immediate Video Replay