The Pros and Cons of Widening the Field

There was a lot of coverage in February 1970 of this idea. People were upset at first, but there was a columnist in the LA Times who objected to the objections. The traditionalist raised such question is what effect the widen field would have on comparisons of new records and old. So how different would baseball be if it were 10 degrees different? I think probably not that much really. But I don't love it.