I take it, then, that you do not follow the NFL, NBA, or NHL, either, since those sports have ticket prices which are much, much more prohibitive.
Baseball still is the best bargain and the most family-friendly of the four major sports. Unfortunately, my favorite sport is nowhere near as affordale as it used to be. And it has become way, way too commercialized--at the stadium, on TV, and on the radio. Very annoying.
It used to be that an outing to the baseball game cost about as much as a night at the movie theater. Well, even as much as movie tickets have soared in price, they don't begin to compare with major league baseball ticket prices today.
Ticket prices haven't ruined the game for me. Free agency has.
If Pete Rose were starting baseball today, he'd play for about eight teams in his career. It's really hard to root for your hometown hero when you know there's a good chance he's leaving the team in the next year or two.