Not only has baseball squandered a golden opportunity to have the stage to itself, but the damage of a self-destructive standoff between millionaires and billionaires could prove irreparable
The perennial hand-wringing over Major League Baseball’s waning popularity and relevancy amid the hastening pace of American life, a tradition dating back more than a century, is not entirely without merit. Average attendance at major league ballparks hit a 16-year low in 2019. Little League participation is down. A Gallup poll shows baseball, which ceded the practical if not symbolic mantle of national pastime to the NFL decades ago, is falling behind basketball in popularity among fans in the United States. The median age for last year’s World Series inched upward yet again from the year before to 56.9.
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Written by Bryan Armen Graham
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jun/19/mlb-restart-standoff-owners-players under the title “Major League Baseball is making the error of a lifetime”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
