Ever since the inception of baseball being broadcast on TV , and for many decades after, the concept was simple: Follow the action. Follow the ball.

And that made sense.

Viewers wanted to watch baseball, and really any sport on their televisions, like they were at the game. They wanted to see pitchers pitch, they wanted to see fielders field, they wanted to see hitters hit. And that's what camera operators and TV producers tried to give them.

"Reaction shots, reactions were not -- they just covered the game," legendary sports TV executive and producer John Filippelli told me over Zoom. "Things that underscored the emotion of the game were not part of the television lexicon in those days."

That is ... until the night of October 21, 1975.

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