In the late 1940s to early 1960s, NBC only aired the All-Star Game and World Series. Soon after, they began showing the Game of the Week on Saturday afternoons. In the 1990s, games that were aired fell into The Baseball Network. NBC aired postseason games towards the end of the decade. The reason why such random games were aired on NBC was because it didn’t have exclusive over-the-air rights at some points or they just didn’t have the rights to certain games in general.
On this day, July 16th, in 1985, NBC was the first TV network to telecast the All-Star Game in stereo. NBC television had begun working with Major League Baseball in August of 1939, back when it aired the first ever Major League Baseball game on TV.