A Matter Of Time

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MLB is trying to speed up the time of games. It's an old story. For at least 90 years, baseball executives have complained that the games are dragging on and something must be done to speed things up. Here is a short sample from New York Times: March 19, 1928 Barnard Orders Snappier Games; American League Bars Dawdling; President Instructs Umpires To Keep Players On Move And Pitchers Will Have ... [link]

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Baseball Today: Tuesday, May 27
Published 5/27/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... (Boston Herald) The Joy Of Sox' Allan Wood finds clips that point out baseball has been talking about speeding up games for at least 80 years, and then makes some tangible suggestion -- like cutting down commercial time between innings, or calling the strike zone as the rule book lays it out -- that would actually make things go quicker. ...

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