Payphones - The Payphone Project

"There's no way to get real time baseball scores. What did you do? I had a column called back page and a i asked readers to send me pay phone numbers from the stadiums in their area," he says. "How many times out of ten would some pick up"? He'd say nine and a half times out of 10. And usually theyd just be standing in line. Pick up the phone, ask him what the score was."