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From: credmond@watmath.UUCP (Chris Redmond)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: World Series Begins
Message-ID: <16918@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Oct-85 21:39:12 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 18 21:39:12 1985
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Summary: 

>After watching the 7th game in Toronto I was very surprised to hear
>that therer were only about 35,000 at the game, it wasn't a sellout.
>I didn't realize that this ever happened.  I guess I'm a bit disappointed.

There was a lot of confusion and unhappiness about ticket sales -- originally
only the far outfield bleacher seats were to be for sale locally, and
priced at $19 (during the regular season, $2 to $4).  As anyone who has
seen Exhibition Stadium knows, most of those seats are great for football,
lousy for baseball (unless you LIKE getting a crick in your neck).  The
entire reserved-seat section of the stadium was "for league commitments",
i.e. sponsors and other teams. Later, when some of those seats proved to be
available after all, the publicity was feeble -- and the real fans had
alerady made their plans.   Also, there was the serious mistake of scheduling
three of the four Toronto games at night.  October days in Toronto tend to
be sunny and pleasant, temperatures in the 60's, but after dark it can get
cold, and fans probably decided it was warmer in front of the TV set.
Would have been smarter to play daytimes in Toronto and night-times in
Los Angeles.