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Carlton Fisk’s Home Run Wave Changed TV Sports, But It Almost Didn’t Get Filmed At All
Manage episode 305148172 series 2922787
Today in 1975, game 6 of the World Series between the Cincinnati Reds and the Boston Red Sox. The iconic clip of Carlton Fisk waving his game-winning home run fair was caught by the camera kind of by accident. Plus: a couple in the UK gets a ticket because a traffic camera caught their car driving in the bus-only lane, except that they weren't in the bus-only lane. Or in a car. Or in that city.
How Carlton Fisk's 1975 home run changed TV sports forever (Boston Globe)
Bus lane camera mistakes woman's sweater for number plate (BBC)
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Manage episode 305148172 series 2922787
Today in 1975, game 6 of the World Series between the Cincinnati Reds and the Boston Red Sox. The iconic clip of Carlton Fisk waving his game-winning home run fair was caught by the camera kind of by accident. Plus: a couple in the UK gets a ticket because a traffic camera caught their car driving in the bus-only lane, except that they weren't in the bus-only lane. Or in a car. Or in that city.
How Carlton Fisk's 1975 home run changed TV sports forever (Boston Globe)
Bus lane camera mistakes woman's sweater for number plate (BBC)
Our Patreon backers make every episode of our show a winner
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/coolweirdawesome/support1447 episodes
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