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From: stevev@tekchips.UUCP (Steve Vegdahl)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: All-Star teams (also geography)
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Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 14:38:23 EDT
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> And by the way, the NBC bit last saturday on snow in October in Montreal
> was really absurd, and despite some climatic differences, Toronto
> is on the same latitude as Northern California... Remember the dollar
> difference in October, the Wrold series in Canada will be a bargain!

Stating that Toronto is on the same latitude as Northern California is
stretching the truth more than a little.  California's northern border
is the 42nd parallel.  Toronto is between the 43rd and 44th.  Stating
things as the author of the above message did is particularly deceiving
because "Northern California" traditionaly refers to the San Francisco
Bay Area, which straddles the 38th parallel.

The casual reader might come away with the impression that "Montreal is
close to Toronto, which is on the same parallel as San Francisco", and
thereby conclude that Montreal (north of the 45th) and San Francisco (38th)
are at approximately the same latitude.

With respect to snow in October, my grandmother (who has lived all here
life near Minneapolis) tells me that it is not unheard of to get snow
there in September or May.  The same thing could be said about Denver, no?

On to another subject.  I always thought that the best way to negate
all-star ballot-box stuffing would be to normalize the votes based on
the total number of votes cast at each team's stadium.  That is to say,
to weight the votes so that the fans each team count for 1/26 of the total.
This would require a ballot-box stuffing plot to be organized across
several major league cities to have a significant effect.

Incidentally, it seems to me that a group of people dedicated to having
fan-ballotting eliminated could stuff ballot-boxes with votes for no-stars.

		Steve Vegdahl
		Computer Research Lab.
		Tektronix, Inc.
		Beaverton, Oregon