Cartoon Canon: The first broadcast! taken in Richmond, Va. (Pirates)

If KDKA hadn’t broadcast a baseball game for the first time, someone else undoubtedly would have. (Indeed, there have been unsubstantiated claims that Detroit’s WWJ did just that, a year earlier in 1920).

But one must admit, it’s pretty cool that a station in Pittsburgh is almost universally acknowledged as having done it!

ROB ULLMAN / DKPS

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