We find that the PGA simply watches its game grow richer purses, more television exposure and more people playing golf. ... Though Finchem (Tour commissioner who was President Carter economic adviser in 1978-79.) game has grown increasingly large, he admits that competing for the sports dollar long-term is much more challenging now than it was five years ago. ...
Boston won the game 3-0. ... No New York - Boston game would ever be meaningless, despite what the standings sometimes said. ... One of the greatest players ever in the game was Ted Williams. ... The team exceeded all of the even most optimistic of projections and fought the hardest fight in a tough pennant race that went down to the final day of that Cinderella season. ... A nationwide television audience of over seventy-five million viewers tuned in to the seventh game later that day, a game that the Red Sox lost. ...
This boom could be considered to be even more vital to the growth in popularity of the game than the population. ... Major opponents of the decision felt that having night games would take away from the "purity " and "innocence " of the game. ... With time the innovation was accepted league wide, which brings up the comparison of the integration of the game to the installation of the night game. Like integration, the appeal of the night game to the owners was profitability. ... This new market were even more endeared to the game of baseball when they were able to see people of their sam...
