I used to like baseball a lot when I was a kid. I'd go to Fenway Park and buy a scorecard and pencil so I could score the game. There was a certain pureness to scoring the game back then as every at-bat had a square box in which you had to fill in the result of every pitch. That took a bit of discipline as you had to pay attention to every pitch.
Scoreboards were primitive back then and did not show instant replays so if you missed something, you had to ask the person next to you what just happened.
Nowadays, kids at games are always restless. They can't sit still for more than an inning and a half without having to get up to use the bathroom, get a soda, a taco, or whatever. Even when they are sitting, they are glued to their cellphones and not really watching the game at all.
Many decades ago I lived in the SF East Bay Area and would go to the Oakland As games when the Yankees and Red Sox came to town.
The As were terrible in those days and the stadium was totally empty.
The Yankee and Red Sox fans outnumbered the As fans—lots of fun howling at each other.