Baseball is passed from father to son.
Which is probably the number one reason you don’t see many blacks
Also, there’s very little showboating in baseball. The Mannies being Mannies are few a far between. For some reason Blacks are drawn to that.
Catch a pass in the endzone, even if you are down by 21 you get to dance around like a fool.
Hit a homerun and jog too slowly around the bases, or stand there admiring it for too long and you will be plunked the next time up.
Baseball is an interesting generational game that ties generations of spectators together.
My great grandparents were all serious Tiger fans and were always happy to talk about baseball till the day they died.
I agree there is an undercurrent of broken families that could affect interest in baseball. Having said that, does baseball have to be passed on to father and son? If so, what makes baseball different than football in that regard?
Personally I love the end zone prancing in the NFL. I can’t imagine that the ability to prance is the difference between choosing sport A and sport B for a kid. Especially when so few have the talent and drive to make to the point where you might have something to prance about.
The showboating/jerkitude quotient in baseball as compared to football and basketball is a good point. Baseball probably has just as many jerks who would love to break out the gyrating buffoonery displays after a routine single, but there is a jerk on the mound as well. That’s why nobody moonwalks down to first after drawing a walk, nobody wants 90+ in the neck. Doesn’t even have to be the same game, series, or player. And all the players know it.
Also as has been pointed out, there’s very few superstars the minors and they rarely have entitlement syndrome, as opposed to the elite free farm systems of football and basketball.
Freegards
Another myth. Your friends play it, you play it.