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Article: Survey Finds Baseball Is Losing Fans // Poll Shows Only 33 Percent Say They Follow the Game
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 3, 1995
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NEW YORK Major-league baseball has lost about a third of its fans
since last season, according to a Harris Poll released Sunday.
A Harris Poll in May, 1994, found 49 percent of adults said they
followed major-league baseball. In a survey conducted between June 8
and June 11, 33 percent said they followed the sport.
Among those who said they follow baseball, 71 percent said they
were less interested than they were before the 232-day strike.
Twelve percent said they were more interested, and 16 percent said
their level of interest hadn't changed.
Acting commissioner Bud Selig said he wasn't alarmed by the
survey.
"I think it's impossible to react to something like that," he
said from ...