Ozzie Smith

This Week in Baseball is a weekly television program, originally designed to show highlights of the previous week's Major League Baseball action. TWIB debuted in 1977. When Commissioner Bowie Kuhn first took office in 1969, the only network television series that Major League Baseball had was the Saturday afternoon Game of the Week on NBC. Meanwhile, the National Football League in sharp contrast, blanketed TV syndication with NFL Films... produced programs like the NFL Films Game of the Week. Kuhn craved a weekly half-hour show of highlights, lowlights, features, and other fare. So This Week in Baseball was, in a sense, meant to be baseball's answer to NFL Films. During the heyday of TWIB, the program would air on stations that also had television rights to major league franchises like WTBS in Atlanta or KTTV in Los Angeles or WGN in Chicago. TWIB would also air on owned-and-operated NBC stations as a prelude to the Game of the Week.
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Mobile is the third most populous city in the Southern US state of Alabama and is the county seat of Mobile County. It is located on the Mobile River and the central Gulf Coast of the United States. The population within the city limits was 195,111 during the 2010 census. It is the largest... municipality on the Gulf Coast between New Orleans, Louisiana and St. Petersburg, Florida. Mobile is the principal municipality of the Mobile Metropolitan Statistical Area , a region of 412,992 residents which is composed solely of Mobile County and is the second largest MSA in the state. Mobile is included in the Mobile-Daphne–Fairhope Combined Statistical Area with a total population of 591,599 the second largest combined statistical area in the state behind Birmingham. Mobile began as the first capital of colonial French Louisiana in 1702. The city gained its name from the Native American Mobilian tribe that the French colonists found in the area of Mobile Bay. During its first 100 years, Mobile was a colony for France, then Britain, and lastly Spain.
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