I'd never heard of this before and it almost sounds too bizarre to believe. But it happened in 1922, the year many radio stations were just signing on. While KDKA Pittsburgh was said to have aired a game in 1921 (the Pirates vs. the Phillies, won by Pittsburgh 8-5) that was considered an experiment. Not everyone had access to an actual radio back then and the experimenters that did weren't always able to get KDKA's signal. 

Which brings us to Washington D.C. and one of the strangest baseball events in World Series history - a full ballpark, with lots of fans, fake players and non-existent teams. It was the first - and quite possibly the last - "pantomime" baseball game ever held. 

It was all thanks to a now long defunct Washington newspaper.

"The newspaper had hired two teams of Marines — one from the Navy Yard, the other from the Marine Corps Barracks — to ape the action at the Polo Grounds in New York, where the New York Giants would be facing the New York Yankees.

"The action would be transmitted south via four telegraph lines installed especially for the event. Then, four stenographers transcribed the plays, which were distributed to the waiting Marines who would dash onto the field and reenact them."

In 1922, a D.C. ballpark was home to a bizarre World Series facsimile