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Is Baseball Still America’s Pastime?
Through the labor strikes, the owner infighting, the contraction nonsense, and the shame that last year’s All-Star game brought to the sport, baseball as America’s pastime has been severely damaged. ... Hardly the sort of things to make Major League Baseball (MLB) officials worry. But even with weaker attendance and TV ratings following the 1994 strike, and the popularity of other sports increasing, baseball still remains America’s pastime.
Despite an unprecedented marketing push and the addition of home-field advantage in the World Series as a prize for the winning league, baseball’s All-Star Game failed to improve its TV ratings from last year’s record low marks. ... After all, an 18 game season that is decided by one single game is much different than a 162 game baseball season which then goes through two rounds of playoffs (best of five and seven series); to then finally determine the champion in a World Series.
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Title: baseball americas pastime
Words: 606
Rating: None
Pages: 2.4
submitted by: kposta
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