It’s August—the hazy, lazy days of summer. People are either at their vacation homes or wishing they were at Burning Man, virtual again this year. The future’s on hold, so you might as well head to the ballpark or the beach, shut your brain down and read Lizzy Dent’s novel “The Summer Job.” Nothing ever happens in August. Except . . .
Surprise! On Aug. 11, 1951, New York’s WCBS-TV broadcast the first baseball game in color, a double-header from Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field. The surprise was that television could do color at all—maybe 100 color sets existed at the …
