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Page 12 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, APR. 21, 1976 Mets beat Cardinals in 17 innings Network awaits verdict on prime time baseb Part with a Associated Press NEW YORK — “Monday Night Baseball,” country cousin of “Monday Night Football,” got its severest test with that five-hour marathon in St. Louis the other eve ning. The jury is still out on whether it passed or flunked. A.C. Nielsen Co., which keeps tabs on such things, said it won’t know until Wednesday how many viewers stuck it out with the New York Mets and St. Louis Cardinals in their 17-inning game which didn t end until 1:36 a.m. EST. The American Broadcasting Company, which paid $50 million for the privilege of broadcasting major league baseball in prime time, had to do some quick shuffling of its schedules. Apparently, no harm was done. “We are committed to stay with the baseball game no matter, how long it lasts,” an ABC spokesman said. In this case, the 11 o’clock news didn’t start until 2 hours, 36 minutes later and the “Henry Fonda Spe- STORE HOURS cial,” scheduled to go on at 11:30 p.m. got off the track at 2:07 a.m. Meanwhile, Del Unser, Mets’ outfielder who had made a costly two-run mistake in the first inning, redeemed himself with that 17th- inning home run that broke a 3-3 deadlock and won the game for the Mets 4-3. ABC said it received a minimum of phone calls complaining of the delay in the Fonda film, a biographi cal feature. Most of the viewers either got wrapped up in the ball game or clicked off the set and went to bed. That’s something for Nielsen to figure out. First sampling of audience tastes reveal that “Monday Night Baseball” will have a long hard climb if it hopes to match the prime time perform ance of “Monday Night Football,” a resounding success. There are obvious reasons. Virtually every football game has some sort of impact on the cham pionship races. Baseball is inclined to laze along through the spring and early summer, attaining a climax in the fall just before World Series time. Nielsen reports that the baseball inaugural a week ago — offering an intriguing pitching duel between the Yankees’ Catfish Hunter and Balti more’s Jim Palmer — placed third behind CBS and NBC in the ratings. The baseball game had a 21 per cent share of the audience compared with CBS’ 36 with reruns of “All In The Family,” “Maude” and “Medi cal Center” and NBC’s 30 with “Rich Little,” “Joe Forrester” and “Jigsaw John.” Football’s weekly rating was around 37. Baseball’s three-man announcing team of Bob Prince, Warner Wolf and Bob Ueker were challenged in keeping interest alive during a 35- minute rain delay and the prolonged game of four hours, 46 minutes. “We were in the booth a good 6% hours,” Prince said. “But there was no chance to get bogged down. It was a great game — a sort of sudden death. Any pitch might end it—and finally one did. 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