The Schedule Makers

ESPN produced a short called the schedule makers. It is about Henry and Holly Stevenson, a husband team that made the schedule for the MLB. They worked right out of their own home. This was back in the land of landline phones, in which the had a normal phone as well as business phone. Baseball had Harry Simons draw up the schedule for them. He did it for years and was very successful. It got to the point to where he could no longer do it at a successful rate. They developed a computer-generated schedule, that they could add or remove games. They started this in 1982 and did it until 2005. When the league wanted to go high tech, so they replaced them with a computer. Henry was the baseball genius, the architecture behind it. Holly was a great number cruncher. They made baseball amazing because they made the games and knew stuff no computer can know.