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Baseball-America's Pastime?
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I recently watched the World Series on television and I was surprised by the fact that I didn’t think it was as exciting as I usually think it is. I wondered if other people felt the same way about the Series and if baseball should still be considered “America’s Pastime.” I am going to look at baseball and compare it to the other major sports in the U.S., mainly football and basketball, to decide whether or not baseball is still the most enticing sport in America. Baseball is my favorite sport and I think my search will prove that baseball should still be considered “America’s Pastime.” Baseball seems like it’s not as successful as it used to be. This year the television ratings for the World Series were the lowest ever, down 24% from last years, which were the lowest up until then (Des Moines Register, 2002). I know that baseball attendance has been on the slide the past few years since the great home run chase in the summer of 1998 and I know that the NFL’s average attendance has been going up the past few years. I also know that it’s not very fair to compare NFL attendance to MLB attendance because baseball is played every day and football is played once a week, but there is also the problem of contraction in Major League Baseball and the NFL doesn’t have that problem. I’m not going to argue that football should be considered “America’s Pastime” because if you look at amateur participation, baseball compares very favorably to football.
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