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The Mystery of ESPN's Missing Tapes

ESPN Daily

ESPN

Sports

4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

ESPN broadcast its first game 40 years ago - but it wasn't the NFL or a big fight. It was a pro softball game, of all things. ESPN's Jeremy Schaap set out to find the tapes...and discovered that they'd been missing for decades. Schaap joins Mina Kimes to share the mystery of the lost tapes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The ESPN videotape library, it's in this warehouse, and it's a couple of miles from the main ESPN

0:12.1

campus. It's so vast, there's no room for it on the main campus anymore. It is the largest

0:17.8

sports tape library, repository, reliquary, anywhere in the world.

0:24.2

Jeremy Schapp is an ESPN reporter and the host of E60.

0:28.9

If you remember the scene at the end of Raiders of Lost Ark, it's supposed to be like the

0:33.4

National Archives and it just keeps moving out and showing you the vastness of the warehouse.

0:40.1

It's like that, except for sports games.

0:44.8

Everything is in there.

0:46.2

Just about everything you could possibly imagine that has taken place in sports in the last 40 years.

0:51.7

But what we really wanted, which holds this very special place in the history of

0:56.0

the network, wasn't there.

1:05.7

ESPN broadcast his first game 40 years ago. It was a key moment in the history of sports.

1:12.2

But when our Jeremy Shapp set out to find the tape, it was missing.

1:17.3

Today, a mystery that went unsolved for decades.

1:21.4

I'm Mina Kimes. It's Tuesday, December 31st.

1:24.6

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