Amazing how little info that us out of state fans had at the time.
Outside of the draft list printed in the local papers in April, we had little to no info until the Street & Smith's came out in July. I have a ton of those annuals from the 70's and 80's.
Obviously, ESPN changed that and also the USA Today newspapers as well. Only place you could get a complete box score and story on every game. I remember always stopping at the local convenient store to pick it up when I 1st started working.... often driving and reading the box score on my way to work... kind of stupid to do that.
I almost miss those days in a way. You had to be a diehard fan to know what was going on and you worked to get that knowledge. Plus, you had few talking heads to deal with.