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COLLEGE ALL-STAR FOOTBALL GAME (ABC, 9:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.).* Last year's College All-Stars v. pro football's World Champion Green Bay Packers. From Soldier Field, Chicago...
...cloudy at the beach. It is ladies' day at the golf course. His boat is in drydock, and his wallet won't stand a trip to the track. So what is a restless sports buff to do on a summer afternoon? He could take in a baseball game, but he probably won't. Empty seats are the sign of baseball's times...
...Race. What's wrong? Every baseball mogul has a theory. Cincinnati's Robert Howsam blames the weather: "In 22 of our first 26 games we had either rain or the threat of it." Others pick on TV and the unattractiveness of older big-league stadiums, at least two of which-Chicago's Comiskey Park and Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium-are located in ghetto areas, which many fans are afraid to traverse at night. The pitchers' domination of the sport and the concurrent decline in hitting (as of last week only eight major-leaguers were...
...activity can be. Compared with the violence and sophistication of pro football, the frenetic pace of hockey and basketball, baseball seems elementary, antiquated and soporific. It still draws more fans in total than other pro team sports. But that is only because there are 1,620 big-league baseball games each season (v. 182 pro-football games). Attendance per game in baseball has actually dropped by 2,639 fans over the past 20 years. Donald Deskins, a social scientist at the University of Michigan, says the big problem is that baseball simply is out of step with the times...
Closest yet to the prize was a catch made on July 4 off St. Thomas by an experienced and appropriately named big-game angler who already had 20 blues to his credit. Aboard Captain Johnny Harms's Savana Bay, Elliot Fishman had just reached the grounds and was still wiping his sunglasses when it happened. "I glanced out," he recalls, "and there was this s.o.b., coming like blazes with his mouth wide open. I struck him, and that brute jumped 19 times." It took Fishman 3 hrs. 28 min. to boat the marlin. At the dock four hours later...