April 12, 2010
There are many reasons—most of them bad—that
baseball games have gotten longer, from an average of two hours and
23 minutes in 1951 to 2:52 last season. And as Steve Chapman notes,
Major League Baseball has given the umpires the authority to
eliminate the pointless prolongation of games. It's time the men in
blue took action.
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