THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 18, 1939

• Very 1st sport's event on television
• Princeton vs. Columbia baseball game
• Historic broadcasting first

The sport's section (page 33) has a three column heading : "Columbia Loses Twice" with subheads that include: "PRINCETON ANNEXES LEAGUE TWIN  BILL" and more with box scores and related photo. (see) A very historic issue in the field of broadcasting as this was the very 1st sporting event ever to be televised with text that includes: "...was televised by the National Broadcasting Company, the first regularly scheduled sporting event to be pictured over the air waves" (see) Nice to have in this famous NYC title.
Complete with all 52 pages, rag edition, a little light damp staining, nice condition.

Background: On May 17, 1939, NBC’s experimental station W2XBS made broadcasting history by airing the first televised baseball game—a double-header college matchup between Princeton and Columbia at Baker Field in New York City, where Princeton ultimately secured a 2–1 victory in 10 innings. Legendary sportscaster Bill Stern delivered the play-by-play for an estimated audience of about 3,000 viewers across roughly 400 primitive television sets in the New York area. The broadcast was a groundbreaking technological test, captured using just a single stationary camera mounted on a 12-foot wooden platform along the third-base line, which made tracking high fly balls and rapid field plays nearly impossible and forced viewers to rely heavily on Stern’s descriptive narration. Despite the technical limitations and raw visual quality, the experiment was hailed as a success, proving that live sports could be successfully captured and transmitted to home screens, and directly paving the way for the first televised Major League Baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Cincinnati Reds at Ebbets Field just three months later.