Key To A Happy Marriage? Baseball.
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Here are a couple interesting tidbits from a recent ABC News article about the importance of “shared time” to keeping marriages together:
[University of Denver researcher Howard] Markman took a less scientific approach in a solo study he began in the early 1990s of cities with major league baseball teams; he found those cities had a 28 percent lower divorce rate than cities that didn’t have teams but had expressed interest in one.
Further:
Scarborough Sports Marketing of New York, which collects consumer information about professional sports, found that more than 3.9 million married women attended a major-league [baseball] game from August 2006 through September 2007, compared with 2.5 million for professional basketball, football and hockey combined.
Just a couple more reasons why baseball is the most romantic of all sports.
Hence, getting to “first base”, “second base”, etc.
Or, more likely in my case, my wife telling me how often I’m out in left field.
As long as she doesn’t call for a relief pitcher
Baseball, what can’t it do?