How Baseball has Changed Over the Years Reminisce and Discover the Major Difference of the Game Then and Now Baseball is Played Exactly the Same Way… …Essentially. The Pitcher throws the ball. The Batter hits the ball and runs through the bases. The Fielder catches the ball and passes it. But the Truth is: A lot of aspects of the game haven’t been the same since. For example, the players and their built are way bigger than before. That’s just one example. You too have probably noticed this over the years. Let’s look at these changes in Major League Baseball. Part time to Professional Career Players in the past didn’t earn as much baseball players do now. They had to do other odd jobs like selling cars, insurance, business suits, clothes, …show more content…
At present, there are only 8% of them. The population of Hispanic players have increased to 30%, and there are a few Asians as well. Number of Viewers In the 1950s, the number of fans watching the baseball league games only averaged about 14,000 per game. Even though that decade was considered to be the golden age of the game, the number of viewers then can’t compare to the number today. To be more precise, the number of fans has increased by over two times! The last season had an average attendance of 32,000 viewers per game. This is just for live audiences. If we look at the number of TV viewers, it averages 90,000 TV audiences per game per locality when a top team like Tampa Bay Rays is playing. During the world series, the number of viewers reach 13.8 million nationwide. It’s close to the 15.5 million viewers during the NBA finals, proving that baseball still is a popular sport. Throughout history, the highest rated game was in 1986: New York Mets vs Boston Red Sox. Around 40 million fans were watching the game where New York Mets won. Game Performance For the past 50 years, the average number of hits remained the same if not very