Is baseball still America's pastime?

Answer 1

Well, now really, do I care? Baseball will always be MY sport, and if 77 million attend games, it's still popular. I don't care.

Stop to think for a sec -- what is a 'pastime'? It's a term no longer used. Even if football is more popular, is it a 'pastime'? I don't even know for sure. I don't hear Terry Bradshaw saying that. The nuance of the word has left our cultural understanding. So, for my vote, baseball will ALWAYS be America's pastime.

Answer 2

74 million fans through the gates in 2004, 75 million in 2005, and 77 million in 2006. The numbers I hear are 77+ million this year. New attendance records every year, I would say that MLB is on a roll and no other sport but baseball will ever be refereed to as "America's Pastime".

Answer 3

Though most seem quick to take that title away from baseball and hand it to the NFL, I do think baseball retains some claim on the title 'America's Pastime' despite the current cloud of suspicion hovering over its stars. I've noticed that many baseball apologists get defensive over that title being given to any other sport. But I think even though baseball has the longest and richest tradition of any American sport, sharing the title of 'America's Pastime' with the NFL and the NBA doesn't take away from generational appeal the game has.

I think baseball has become a game that is passed on from one generation of fans to the next and not so much one where throngs of fan come to it on their on. It seems to have become something you need to be introduced to and shown how to love.

Answer 4

As much as I love football, there is just something about baseball that gives me a special feeling when I walk into a stadium. I think baseball is something that the whole country can rally around, and I think a majority of the people you meet would agree to go out with you to a baseball game as opposed to any other sport.

Baseball has left me with so many fond memories. There is nothing like seeing a walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth, witnessing a no hitter, or going to watch the World Series.

Answer 5

The NFL is now America's pastime. The NFL is covered year round, whether it is minicamps, spring meetings, the draft, whatever, people always want to hear about the NFL. The NFL even takes the headlines during baseball season. The problem is that baseball has 162 games and one game means nothing. The NFL has 16 and every game matters. Long live the NFL!!!

Answer 6

Football overtook Baseball in 1984 when the Chicago Bears produced the greatest song ever to hit the airwaves......the Superbowl Shuffle.

Seriously 81' baseball strike started it

84 superbowl was with the Bears and all the hype around that team added to it.

94 Baseball strike sealed the deal. Baseball will never recover. The players union is way, way to strong,

Answer 7

Yes and it always will be. Baseball changed America and is more than deserving to be called it's pastime.

Answer 8

The last baseball strike pushed football to the top. Plus modern Americans want more thrill to their sports and the high-impact football is much more exciting than the more technical baseball.

Answer 9

I believe that is football now.
The proof is in what will people do for fun at a picnic or other informal gathering. My generation got a baseball or softball game going. My kids get a football game going. As long as everyone is having fun, who cares.

Answer 10

Not even close...Football took that over years ago. Baseball ratings have gone down the past 7-8 years.