Not an MLB press release-or even an AP press release (that usually sounds like an MLB press release)

Interesting for baseball's big picture:

• For Tuesday night's All Star game at Yankee Stadium:(NY Times): "The Nielsen ratings show that there were far more viewers

• in the three-channel days before cable,
• as many as 36.3 million in 1976,

• compared with 14.5 million on Tuesday night.

Fox, which carried the game, said that 1.25 million households were tuned to the game in New York, a figure the network said was at least a 10-year high for the event in the nation’s largest television market. But Fox also said that viewership nationally

• peaked at 10 p.m. Eastern and dropped as the night went on."

From NY Times article by James Barron, "Ballgame Wasn't Over Till Fat Lady was Snoring," 7/17/08

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