Bing Crosby, Television Sports Preservationist

Hugh Pickens submits news first gleaned from a now-paywalled article at the New York Times (and, happily, widely reported) that "The hunt for a copy of the seventh and deciding game of the 1960 World Series, considered one of the greatest games ever played and long believed to be lost forever, has come to an end in the home of Bing Crosby, a canny preservationist of his own legacy, who kept a half-century's worth of records, tapes and films in the wine cellar turned vault in his Hillsborough, California home. Crosby loved baseball, but as a part owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates he was too nervous to watch the Series against the Yankees, so he and his wife went to Paris, where they listened by radio. Crosby knew he would want to watch the game later — if his Pirates won — so he hired a company to record Game 7 by kinescope, an early relative of the DVR, filming off a television monitor. The five-reel set, found in December in Crosby's home, is the only known complete copy of the game, in which Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski hit a game-ending home run to beat the Yankees, 10-9."

Comments

Now,

[Anonymous Coward]

Get him for piracy...

Re:Now,

[Anonymous Coward]

So, what you're saying is, not only was he pirating televised baseball games without the expressed written consent of Major League Baseball, he was sponsoring the creation of piracy-enabling recording technology too?

He's lucky he's not around anymore, or the FBI/MPAA copyright police would be roasting his chestnuts on an open fire.

Crosby's estate is screwed

[eln]

As soon as they figure out that this recording was made without the express written consent of Major League Baseball, Crosby's estate is going to be totally hosed.

Re:Crosby's estate is screwed

[CrashandDie]

Crosby would be proud. 33 years after his death, he's finally made the Pirate team.

Alert!

[JustOK]

Couldn't we have had a spoiler alert?

Re:The upside to letting people copy media

[eyebum]

Sure...except nobody's SEEDING. frickin' leechers.

Re:The upside to letting people copy media

[zippthorne]

Just think about all the culture that would still be available to us today, if the technology to copy was wider spread and available when TV first appeared. We would have a complete collection of all the old Dr. Who episodes.

And hopefully some positive effects, too!

Re:The Fall Classic and 2" quad

[oldhack]

Get off my lawn.

Re:The Fall Classic and 2" quad

[TheLink]

Let's not leave our descendants with the same sense of loss.

Easy, just lose all the records of the loss as well ;).

There's often lots of data loss but the records of data loss are also lost (or not recorded in the first place)...

Re:The Fall Classic and 2" quad

[pugugly]

I'm not a sports fan myself, but in the interests of fairness my main objection is the ego's of sportsfans.

I'll forgive them when they get to see "Because of the extended Sci Fi Marathon going into triple overtime, we are now joining Super Bowl 56, already in progress . . . 'And it's 4th and ten!!!'"

{G} - Pug