CBS Baseball Schedule for 1990, more of the same

[John Vander Borght]

Here is the CBS television schedule of games for this year.
I've typed this in from an ad in the Sporting News 1990 Baseball Special.

Saturday April 14 Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh
Los Angeles at Houston

Saturday April 21 Montreal at New York Mets
California at Minnesota

Saturday June 16 Boston at Baltimore
San Diego at Los Angeles

Saturday June 23 St. Louis at Chicago Cubs
San Francisco at Houston

Saturday June 30 Oakland at Toronto

Saturday July 7 Chicago Cubs at San Francisco
Minnesota at New York Yankees

Tuesday July 10 All Star Game,
Wrigley Field, Chicago

Saturday July 14 Kansas City at Boston
San Diego at Pittsburgh

Saturday July 21 San Francisco at Chicago Cubs
Philadelphia at Cincinnati

Saturdy July 28 St. Louis at New York Mets
Baltimore at Kansas City

Saturday Aug 4 Los Angeles at San Francisco
New York Mets at St. Louis

Saturday Aug 11 New York Yankees at Oakland
Texas at Chicago White Sox

Sunday Aug 12 New York Yankees at Oakland

Saturday Aug 18 California at Boston
Kansas City at Milwaukee

Saturday Aug 25 New York Mets at Los Angeles
Boston at Toronto

Saturday Sept 22 Wild Card

Saturday Sept 29 Wild Card

Teams Total Primary
Chicago Cubs 4 4
New York Mets 4 3
San Francisco 4 3
Boston 4 3
Los Angeles 4 2
Oakland 3 3
St. Louis 3 2
New York Yanks 3 2
Kansas City 3 1
Pittsburgh 2 1
California 2 1
Baltimore 2 1
Toronto 2 1
Houston 2
San Diego 2
Minnesota 2
Montreal 1 1
Philadelphia 1
Cincinnati 1
Texas 1
Chicago White S 1
Milwaukee 1
Seattle 0
Atlanta 0
Detroit 0
Cleveland 0

I'm assuming that the first telecast mentioned on a date is the primary game
that most of the country will see. Seems like more of the same old stuff we
used to get from NBC.

Of 26 games to be televised, 18 involve at least one team from LA, NY, Chicago
or Boston. Of the 14 primary telecasts, 13 involve at least one of the
above. If add the Bay Area, it goes to 23 out of 26 and 14 out of 14. Also,
in the 14 primary games, 21 of the 28 teams are from those 5 areas.

So of the 14 games we're likely to see here in Portland (we rarely get the
secondary game since we don't have a team) 9 of the 26 teams will make up
75% of the teams we see and 100% of the games will involve at least one of
them. We'll only get to see 14 teams all year on CBS.

Also, I can't believe they are going to totally ignore baseball during the
first two weeks of September, which is quite often a time for the best
pennant races to really heat up. I almost hope all four divisions are
settled by the time they get to their wild card games.

Thank goodness I get ESPN.

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