‘Best Game Ever’ Broadcast Found in Bing Crosby’s Wine Cellar

"He knew he would want to watch the game later — if his Pirates won — so he hired a company to record Game 7 by kinescope, an early relative of the DVR, filming off a television monitor."

Wait, what?

Crosby had an important role in the history of the magnetic recording industry.

Crosby was an early investor in Ampex corporation, the U.S. company that adapted WWII German wire-recorder technology (which used an A.C. bias signal to improve quality).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampex_Corporation