Baseball on television is committing suicide and is disappearing… — The Museum as Large-Room Pinball Machine, Marshall McLuhan, Harley Parker, and Museum Professionals, 1967, full transcript of a seminar at the City Museum of New York, October, 1967, edited by William Buxton, published by U. of Alberta Press, 2026, p 93

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Baseball on television is committing suicide and is disappearing very rapidly from the sports scene on television., because it’s a one-thing-at-a-time game. It belongs to the nineteenth century and to our old, specialist phase of culture…. One thing at a time, perectly executed: the new world is not like that. It’s an interphase world of many phases and many methods simultaneously, and it prefers football or more tactile sports. Skin-diving, anything rather than baseball. Baseball is high definition. It’s precise, elegant, finished.

The Museum as Large-Room Pinball Machine, Marshall McLuhan, Harley Parker, and Museum Professionals, 1967, full transcript of a seminar at the City Museum of New York, October, 1967, edited by William Buxton, published by U. of Alberta Press, 2026, p 93

Quote #6584

Year: 1967

Chapters: Sports and Games | Linear and Nonlinear | Television

↪ Also at #6814, #3509