In 1922, a D.C. ballpark was home to a bizarre World Series facsimile
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Of course, the newspaper that called it that was the newspaper that created it: the Washington Times. The Washington Post was among newspapers that hung what were generically called Play-o-Graph machines outside their buildings, drawing crowds. The action would be transmitted south via four telegraph lines installed especially for the event. Then, four stenographers transcribed the plays, which were distributed to the waiting Marines who would dash onto the field and reenact them.
Wrote the Washington Times: “It sounds a trifle tame, but the thousands who saw it worked got a powerful kick out of it.”
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