Molson Hart

Might this explain why baseball used to be so popular? For years it was the only sport that could be enjoyably broadcast.https://twitter.com/nickschulz/status/1167237129778413568 …

I think baseball's popularity is tied to a particular era of larger-scale social organization that has passed. You need 15-20 people even to reasonably play a short-handed game. There's no real small-scale variant, like for other sports.

Baseball was king in an era of large families, large workplaces, churches that people actually attended, fraternal organizations, and conscription. Society is chopped down to atoms today.