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.
