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BREADON SEES NIGHT BATTLES IN BIG LEAGUESe11 St. Louis Magnate Well Pleased With ExperimentADDS INTERESTST. LOUIS, Sept. 30, (£*)—'The first i trial of floodlights at Sportsman’s r Park before a crowd of 10,000 has left President Sam Breadon of the i Cardinals “interested” in the possi-i bilities of introducing night baseball t Into the major leagues.? Several defects in the portablelighting equipment of the House ofi t David ball club manifested them-t selves during the game, but Breadon 1 pointed out that these have beenovercome in permanent installations.At Columbus, where we havethe latest thing in floodlights,”he said “there Is not a shadow or a dark spot. In some respects the visibility fs greater than by daylight.“The ball Is highly Illuminated by. the lights, and really 13 more easily! followed.” |Breadon added that fans at Columbus and at Houston, Tex., where the Cardinals also have a farm, have shown their approval of night baseball by their attendance.“At one game In Columbus this year,” he continued, “we had 19,000 attendance. There were 10,000 here for the night exhibition, yet only about 400 the same afternoon for a regular championship game.”Breadon conceded that many persons might have been attracted by the novelty of the first night game in the park, others by the picturesque opponents of the Cardinals, and sl-ill other,*: by Grover Cleveland Alexander, former Cardinal hurler now manager of the bearded team.Yet the Red bird magnate is convinced “a far greater number of persons are able and eager to attend ball games at night than is the case in daytime.”The introduction of an occasional .night game into the league schedule,; he thinks, might not prove a had I Idea.”
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Evening Independent
Massillon, Ohio, US
Fri, Sep 30, 1932
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