Earlier in 1958 USC captured the College World Series. On Monday May 14 in the first game of a seven game homestand the Baysox awarded a fan who correctly answered an Oriole trivia question four tickets for the next night to a minor league basketball game. We are now officially transferring the Bad Taste Award from Maryland Baseball. The large inflated replica of the sinking Titanic allows kids to climb up and then slide down the deck of the ship at a 65-degree slope. On Deck, the free combination playbill, program and scorecard is becoming a big hit at Bowie and look for it at Frederick and Delmarva next season.
Fans get a free program and scorecard with updated stats before each series.
The folks at Comcast-Spectacor like the idea of playbill concept so much they are considering using it for some of their Philadelphia teams. People are trained to pay for a program. The fans are shocked they are free, said Andy Frankel who produces the free program. Bowie GM Jon Danos sees the concept as being an idea that will be sweep professional sports. Danos points out the advertisers get total penetration in reaching the annual attendance of around 400,000.