The greatest difference between today’s young athlete and my own experience as a young athlete is that I played the sport of the season from football to basketball to baseball. A 2008 survey by the National Council of Youth Sports found that one in four of the 60 million children surveyed, ages 6 to 18, …
Month: November 2014
Throughout my baseball and statistics course at Quinnipiac University, I encouraged my students to write postings for my blog. This will be the first student posting. Other student postings will follow. But, I will also be keeping my readers up to date on the future signings of the more than 150 free agents still unsigned. …
As mentioned in my Blog: Baseball and Television Grow in Popularity Together, certain individual baseball games shown on television had an enormous impact on baseball’s popularity. This blog will highlight a game which is considered one of those special games. The date was October 3, 1951. The game was Game 3 of a three-game playoff …
After writing two blog postings about television ratings and baseball, I decided to research the history of the symbiotic relationship between baseball and television. The information that follows was discovered from documents published by the Baseball Hall of Fame. My first surprise was discovering when and where the first televised game was. The date was …
By Alex Everett The funny thing about baseball is that what we expect to happen doesn’t always happen. As I posted in my last article the Mets were the only team with a positive run differential (+11) and a losing record (79-83). Using Dr. Stan’s formula to predict winning percentage (Winning Percentage = .000683*(runs scored …
In my last blog posting I presented an argument proposed by some people that National TV ratings should not be used to compare the popularity of the World Series (WS) to the popularity of the Super Bowl because the World Series is a regional event whereas the Super Bowl is a national event. The 2014 …