Wednesday, September 03, 2003
Famous Name, Wrong Sport
I'm sure that baseball did a good deal of market research before placing a team in Miami, but let's face it, Florida is football country. For example, look at the mailing address for contacting Marlins players:
Florida Marlins
Attn: (Players Name)
2267 Dan Marino Blvd.
Miami, Florida 33056
Anybody see the problem here?
On the other hand, the official basketball of the NBA has the word Spalding written across its face...
(Baseball has gone with Rawlings since 1976, I think that Spalding is a great link to baseball's past. He led the National Association, the very first "Major League", in wins in every season it existed, becoming baseball's first 200 game winner. He then joined the National League for its first season, and won 47 games to lead the team that eventually became the Cubs to the league title. At 253-65, his .796 winning% is #1 all time. He was also a career .313 hitter and one of the essential organizers of the early game.)
posted by David 11:42 AM
