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Williamsport Sun: August 20, 1952 – Over 100 Million to See LLB Championship

More than 100,000,000 will see the final game of the Little League World Series on television or on newsreels, Emerson Yorke, official coordinator of television, newsreels, for Little League, announced here today.

Mr. Yorke announced that the championship game to be held Friday afternoon, August 29, will be filmed by both the National Broadcasting Company and the Columbia Broadcasting System for later showing on those networks.

Further, Mr. Yorke announced that he had completed arrangements with newsreel companies to have on hand representatives to film the games. MGM News of the Day, Warner-Pathe News, Universal News, Fox Movietone, and Telenews.

The final game will be broadcast on 100 stations of the Columbia Broadcasting System through the facilities of the Williamsport CBS radio station, WWPA. Ted Husing, who has become known as “The Voice of Little League Baseball,” will do the play-by-play account of the game.

At the same time, Mr. Yorke announced that Paul Lavelle, who directs radio’s Band of America, will attend the last game and direct the Repasz Band for several numbers as he did last year.

From the local Little League office, it was announced that Charles J. Durbin, president of Little League Inc. is seriously ill and will probably not attend the Series. Representing him here from the United States Rubber Company, which sponsors Little League Baseball, will be Harry Mackey.

Among baseball figures to attend the final game will be Branch Rickey, general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates.

It was previously announced that the venerable Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Athletics and Cy Young, the former pitching great, would also attend. There is a possibility that standout current Athletics pitcher Bobby Shantz might also be on hand.