I had a remote and colored TV. In the early 60s.
We had neither until maybe the early 70s.
Seriously, we had a color TV in the late 60's, but that was in the living room, which we didn't get to watch much. Had a B/W 9" tv in the rec room for years after. They had vacuum tube's, which seemed like they had to be replaced often.
Years later, I think I took my son to every one of his baseball practices, and of course to all the games. When I was young we rode our banana seat bikes to a vacant lot to play ball. Usually with one bat that was nailed and taped because of a crack, and a ball that was missing stitches, and part of the wool string inside was unwinding. It just now reminded me how excited we were when somebody had a rubber-coated ball.
I also seem to remember that as we switched sides during an inning, some of us would throw our glove to someone on the other team because not everyone owned a baseball glove.