Early Red Sox and Braves TV history

[Donna Halper]

At 12:41 AM 7/29/2008, Kevin Vahey wrote:
>A new book details the history of baseball and television titled
>CENTER FIELD SHOT.
>
>It offers some interesting tidbits about early Boston TV. Professor
>Halper take note.
>
>It claims that the first televised games at Fenway date to 1931 and
>were done by a gentleman by the name of Hollis Baird who perhaps Donna
>knows of.

Hollis Baird was an engineer who was involved with a Boston-based 
company (located for a time at 70 Brookline Ave) called Shortwave & 
Television.  He did some early TV experiments with TV, one of which 
involved Big Brother Bob Emery in fact.  He was NOT related to a 
Scottish inventor, John Logie Baird, who also was experimenting with 
mechanical TV around the same time-- Hollis Baird lived in Quincy, 
and had a long history as a broadcast engineer.  Scroll down towards 
the bottom of this page http://www.tvhistory.tv/pre-1935.htm  and 
you'll see some of what he was up to.