“Baseball America’s pastime” You’d use to hear this phrase, Baseball used to be one of America’s most favored sport but now is getting less views than Football. Football has more than twice the views than Major League Baseball. As claimed by sports fans ( That are over 18 years old.) In the first Harris poll which is counting the amount of people that watch a certain sport the MLB was claimed to be first mostly watched by the Country of of the United States of America, only over .5% to over 1%. But after these polls were taken it’s now claimed that the NFL or National Football League is mostly watched by Americans after the year of 1985. The reason being is simply sport fans interest in Baseball just dramatically fallen and since then the effect is that the MLB has been falling behind the NFL for over a good span of twenty years. When the World Series is televised on television it is said that fans are just normally changing the channel to the NFL Network it’s been occurring low since the year of 2005. Granted, baseball is far from becoming a mere "fringe" sport. In many cities, baseball retains its popularity. St. Louis, Cincinnati and Boston, to …show more content…
Casual sports fans know the names like LeBron James, Yanzel Puig and Kobe Bryant. Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper and the Angels outfielder Mike Trout are the next big names in baseball, and yet, little national recognition is given to them, aside from the regular mention on ESPN or the Major League Network. (Bleacher Report- HOw the Major League is losing it’s appeal in the modern era.) Rather than in other sports baseball only has a little of Athletes that go beyond others. In comparison with the NFL it seems that the ratio of All-Stars to regular average players it’s like almost 1:12 people. And the MLB which doesn't’ really have a wide collection of All-Stars needs