I don’t like comparisons with football. Baseball is an entirely different game. You can watch a tight, well-played football game,but it isn’t exciting if half the stadium is empty.
The violence on the field must bounce off a lot of people. But you can go to a ball park on a quiet Tuesday afternoon with only a few thousand people in the place and thoroughly enjoy a one-sided game. Baseball has an aesthetic, intellectual appeal found in no other team sport.
