I’m sure over half of all participants in baseball in this country are kids. It’s probably much higher than that. Sounds like a kid’s game.
You are relying on history from the 1880s or something for the most part.
I suspect these days if you go into a boy’s bedroom, you’re more likely to see a poster of Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo than one of an NFL player.
The impact of now having Premier League and Championship League games shown here is huge.
Back when I was in high school, the only way you could watch soccer was the Spanish channel, or shows like “Soccer Made In Germany” on PBS that showed games that were played like two weeks earlier.
Yes, kids play sports. But the sports weren’t made by or for kids, they moved down to kids who tend to do variations of what they see adults doing. Kids also play with toy cars, but nobody is silly enough to call driving a kid’s activity. Kids have Easy Bake Ovens, but nobody says the baker is playing a kid’s game.
Depends on the sport. Baseball predates the Revolutionary War played and organized by adults. The core Olympic sports (track and field) go back as far as we can tell, again played and organized by adults. The roots are always with the adults, then the kids get a version, and that provides the next generation of adult players, who inspire more kids. You can spot the true kid’s games because people stop doing them after puberty.