Pag-e 10
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, March 1, 1972
THE BAH/
AP survey indicates football now more popular than baseball
By WILL GRIMSLEY
AP Special Correspondent
NEW YORK WP)—Pro football
has surged past baseball as
America’s national pastime, but
baseball’s World Series remains
the No. 1 sports event, according
to a special poll released today
by The Associated Press.
“Baseball is about as exciting
as batting rocks wtih a stick on
a country road,” said Ken Booth
of Radio Station KEEL in
Shreveport, La.
“I vote baseball as still our
national pastime,” countered John
Steadman, sports editor of the
Baltimore News - American.
“Baseball has a certain simplicity
to it that is genuine and good.”
Such were examples of the con
trasting opinions in the first of
a projected series of polls on
controversial issues conducted by
The AP among the nation’s
sports writers and sports casters.
The newsmen were presented
a simple ballot, asking: What is
America’s No. 1 sport? What is
the top sports event?
Comments and suggestions
were invited.
With 727 voting, 474 chose pro
football. There were 223 votes
for baseball with 30 write-in
votes for college football, auto
racing, track and field, basket
ball and horse racing.
The World Series was a sound
winner as the top individual
attraction, getting 414 votes
compared with 285 for pro foot
ball’s Super Bowl and 28 scat
tered choices for such events as
the Olympics, Kentucky Derby
and Indianapolis 500.
The poll was taken in the wake
of the controversy raised by a
Harris Poll on the same general
theme financed by the National
Football League and released the
week of last January’s Super
Bowl.
“We can do a poll, too,”
snapped Commissioner Bowie
Kuhn in defense of baseball, “and
get whatever results we want. It
is my feeling these polls can be
done and a sample be so selective
as to get whatever results you
care to get.”
Louis Harris, to whom the NFL
paid $38,000, took a sampling of
1,614 sports fans and announced
that football was named the
favorite sport over baseball by
a margin of 29 per cent to 21 per
cent. Basketball was third at 9
per cent with the rest of the votes
distributed among several other
sports. However, the Harris sur
vey gave the World Series an
edge over the Super Bowl—23 to
20 per cent, the other 57 per cent
scattered among various events.
The AP poll, conducted at a
period when the football season
had just ended and baseball train
ing was beginning, showed strong
er support than the Harris survey
for football and the World Series.
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