That is correct. Prior to baseball's spread during the Civil War, cricket was our national sport, and up until the turn of the 20th Century, we were a world power in the sport.
I don't see how it isn't possible that we cannot regain at least a portion of that glory.
Americans don't have the patience to sit through a Test Match or even an ODI. Soccer will replace the NFL as America's #1 sport before cricket catches on in any meaningful sense.