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...reason Finley keeps a tight grip on the cash is that the A's do not produce much profit. Attendance at modern Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum (capacity: 50,000), a few minutes' drive from downtown Oakland, averages only 13,000 per game. Among the reasons: cold, foggy evenings, competition from the San Francisco Giants across the Bay, and Finley's own money-saving cutbacks on promotion. The result last year was a modest profit of $350,000. Much of that came from TV revenue plus play-off and World Series income...
...increase hitting, which would liven the game, attract more fans and produce more profit, Finley also wants to see batters walked on three balls instead of four. "Just think about the disadvantage the batter has," he says. "In football, there are eleven guys playing eleven guys, in basketball five against five. Not in baseball. We've got nine fielders out there against one batter. We've got to give the batter help...
Davis said the Coop, a profit making cooperative society with a membership of 68.41, made $23,885,000 in sales last year...
Charitable contributions are a small portion of an "enormous" number of expenses deducted from the Coop's net profit, and are only about one-tenth of one per cent of total expenses," he said...
...attributed to the poor condition of the tracks, tied up traffic on the line for the better part of a day). If all goes as USRA plans, Conrail will survive losses of $631 million during its first three years, break Into the black by 1979, and turn a profit of $597 million by 1985. Dividends, however, will be a long time in coming. On preferred stock, none would be paid until 1986. For common stock, the projected year...