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Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Pittsburgh's Deep Play by Play Sports History Has an Amazing Beginning

On an August afternoon in 1921, Harold Wampler Arlin, a young Westinghouse engineer, sat at Forbes Field, spoke into a converted telephone, and quietly invented play-by-play sports broadcasting as we know it. Arlin worked at Westinghouse, the company behind Pittsburgh's KDKA, the world’s first... Sign in to see full entry.

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