Football highlights are worth watching. Baseball highlights are not.
From
The Sporting News' "Baseball's 25 Greatest Moments":
"BASEBALL has moments. Football has drives, basketball has runs, hockey has ... I dunno what hockey has. But I know this: Baseball has moments.
"Moments of suspense.
"Followed by moments when everything changes.
. . . .
"Basketball is jazz. Football is bombs blowin' up. Baseball is silence--until lightning strikes and all hell breaks loose, setting our brains on fire. (Scientists say vivid memories are the result of adrenaline rushes that juice up the brain's ability to absorb events. That, or your brain's on fire.)"
Maven
In football, many of the highlights occur when the game is not even on the line. The action itself is the highlight.
In baseball, there is little action, and highlights are usually highlights only because their effect on the game, as your post seems to imply. The action itself is nothing special, in other words.
Heck, most of the highlights are homeruns. A homerun swing lasts about two seconds, and if you've seen one you've pretty much seen them all. Then the hitter trots casually around the bases. It can't compare to a broken-play scramble by Steve Young, each of which is a something different.