Originally Posted by
kab1one
Considering none of those existed during Roger Maris' day it makes it kind of difficult to compare.
But weekly game of the week on NBC for 5 straight years which the Yankees would have been, and it was the only game on all week
When baseball may have bigger than football right now, Roger was the man.
Cover's of SI and Sporting News along with New York Daily News every day for years. Again these publications had more coverage than ESPN, Twitter and whatever have today.
Clay Travis had an interesting discussion one day, What does it take to trend on Twitter? So the fact Carson trends a lot on twitter doesn't mean he is the most tweeted or looked at story. it means he is trending.
So per usual, the analysis of Sid Chapo is off base.