by Jason Snell
An iPhone 17 Pro enters the Hall of Fame
Kourage Kundahl, writing for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum:
Among the artifacts recently accessioned into the Museum’s permanent collection is an authenticated iPhone 17 Pro used during an Apple TV broadcast of Friday Night Baseball. The Sept. 26, 2025 matchup between the Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers incorporated live game footage from four devices, marking the first use of an iPhone as a primary camera in a professional sports broadcast.
Apple integrated iPhones into its last couple of baseball broadcasts last year, and it’s only appropriate that it would donate one of them to the Hall of Fame’s collection. (Please note: Lots of things are in the Hall of Fame Museum’s collection, and it does not make them “hall of famers,” though technically you could say that an iPhone 17 Pro is now in the Hall of Fame. Probably more than one right now, given all the people who work there.)
In non-coincidentally related news, Apple announced the first half of its Friday Night Baseball schedule on Wednesday, marking the fifth year that Apple will be streaming two MLB games to 60 different countries and regions, exclusively on Apple TV. Apple says that iPhones “will be further integrated into the broadcast camera lineup for select games” this season.