Can Baseball Get More Interesting to Watch With Big Data?
- Kevin Maney for www.newsweek.com August 31st, 2014
- Source: http://www.newsweek.com/can-baseball-get-more-interesting-watch-big-data-267590
Seventy-five years ago, on August 26, 1939, an experimental New York TV station for the first time broadcast a professional baseball game. The Brooklyn Dodgers, playing at Ebbets Field, split a double-header with the Cincinnati Reds. In the stands, 33,000 people cheered. A paltry 3,000 early-TV geeks watched at home, peering into screens the width of a toaster.
That 1939 broadcast barely hinted at how the technology of television would fundamentally change the relationship between sports and society. But now that kind of historic shift is happening again, this time with the explosion of data technology in sports.
