samuels@h-sc1.UUCP (ronald samuels) (05/13/85)
The following is a copy of an article found on page 75 of the May 13th SI. SELF-DESIGNATED HATER OF DESIGNATED HITTERS Howie Newman, a sportsriter for the Lynn (Mass.) Daily Evening Item and a songwriter (Blasted in the Bleachers), positively hates the DH. "It curdles my blood," he says. So when he found out that commissioner Peter Ueberroth was going to conduct a poll this season on the popularity of the DH, he went into action. He calls his movement "Dump the DH." Send him $2 and he'll be more than happy to send you a brochure and a DUMP THE DH bumper sticker. "So far I've sold over 1,100 stickerrs," he says. "I've gotten mail from 44 states and Canada, and I got a letter last week from Saudi Arabia." A check for $4 came with it, drawn on an American bank. Oil money, no doubt. "I don't think I can sway the whole country," Newman says, "but I've been interviewed by WTBS and a TV station in L.A., and I've done a number of radio talk shows. Still, the newspaper coverage is what does it. People see the address that way. When I heard there was going to be a poll, I decided it was a chance to make a statement." For fellow designate haters, the address is: Dump the DH, 35 Fairview Ave., Watertown, Mass. 02172. NBC by the way, conducted its own telephone poll on April 20, and of 66,000 respondents, 58% said no to the DH. ---------------------- Sorry about any typos, but thought that people might be interested. Go Mets!!!! -- Ron Samuels Harvard University Science Center ...harvard!h-sc1!samuels (or better yet) ...harvard!h-sc4!samuels_b
david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin) (05/16/85)
> For fellow designate haters, the address is: Dump the DH, 35 Fairview Ave., > Watertown, Mass. 02172. NBC by the way, conducted its own telephone poll > on April 20, and of 66,000 respondents, 58% said no to the DH. NBC has decided that since their poll was run on a week where the featured game was an NL one, they will do it again during an AL game. Presuming NBC standarizes the results for differing audience sizes, it is an improvement in methodology. But, alas, to what ends? I LIKE the result of the first poll... David Rubin