Baseball was once our “National Pasttime”, now look at the average MLB roster.
Baseball is a hard game to master, especially hitting breaking balls. It has died in the inner cities as you need the space, a certain number of participants, and the equipment. Urban youths naturally gravitate to basketball (hence the decline in the percentage of black major leaguers),.... you only beed a hoop and a ball... you can even play and practice by yourself if necessary. But conversely baseball's popularity has grown exponentially in Latin American and Asia.
“Baseball was once our “National Pasttime”, now look at the average MLB roster.”
Baseball is a Caribbean game, too. Heck, we even get players from places like Aruba & Curacao on occasion. You know the instant the Castro-ites are gone from Cuba that MLB will put a franchise in Havana.