You do know that the NFL teams fill those stadiums 16 times in a regular season while baseball teams do it 162 times in a season, right? Sure baseball doesn’t have the average per-game attendance that football does but it plays many more games.
I was just commenting on how when I was a kid, baseball was a BIG deal.
Probably still as popular as football.
Now NFL ball is much more popular.
I may be biased, as I grew up as a Reds fan in the '70s.
The stands at Riverfront were VERY filled for every game.
And it was one of the "ashtray" style dual use stadiums that MUST have been torn down, because "ugly" or whatever.
53K capacity for baseball.
It would have been unthinkable to cover up the higher decks due to low attendance.
My observation is that now that the owners have extorted untold billions to build awesome new baseball only stadiums, they simply don't put as many butts in seats as they did 40 years ago.