Variety reviews Saint Xavier University professor's book on baseball's history with television

Click here to read Variety's review of "Center Field Shot," a book co-authored by SXU Professor James Walker, Ph.D.

"Center Field Shot: A History of Baseball on Television" successfully tells the story of how the sport made a huge breakthrough arriving in people's homes. The era began with the first televised college game broadcast by NBC in 1939 and now there's the launch of the MLB Network, which begins in 2009.