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TIME Magazine Thinks Baseball Invented Instant Replay
Written by wrigleyville   
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
After naming me Person of the Year in 2006, TIME magazine keeps getting stronger and more relevant. This year, it is under the impression that Major League Baseball invented instant replay - and has included it on its list of top inventions of 2008. From MLB.com: The invention chosen at No. 38 by the editors is instant replay, right there between smog-eating cement and enhanced fingerprints. "Introduced for this season's stretch run, replay allows teams to contest controversial home run calls for the first time," the magazine wrote. "Using ballpark monitors, umps can review a play from every possible angle. This may add minutes to a game that already suffers from slowness, but that's a small price to pay for making the correct call." The best part of the story on MLB.com is the subhead, which reads: "TIME gives nod to baseball's technological achievement." We're new to this television thing, but I'm pretty sure replay is not "baseball's technological achievement." Since I'm not positive, I turn now to the font of all reliable information - Wikipedia: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation invented the first form of instant replay in the 1950s, when director George Retzlaff used a "hot processor" to develop kinescope footage of goals within 30 seconds to replay on Hockey Night in Canada. ... The first video tape instant replay was introduced by Jay Merkle with TelePrompter, a cable TV and theater distributor, during the 1962 heavyweight championship fight between Floyd Patterson and Ingemar Johannsen. A year later, Tony Verna was the first American commercial Network director to use it in an Army Navy game. A year later, Roger Schwing of the TVS Television Network, and later the Mizlou Television Network improved the process with his Iso Lite innovation. OK. So let's be charitable. Maybe they mean baseball invented the use of instant replay in the course of a game. Surely baseball is the first, right? I mean, other than in the NHL, NFL, CFL, NBA, college basketball, college football, tennis, rugby, cricket, rodeo and auto racing. Other than that, this is a hell of an invention. Congratulations, Major League Baseball.

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