“Maybe baseball has to accept that it is now more like classical music than popular music, with football and basketball — and soccer?”
being the Justin Biebers and Lady Gagas of sports. Baseball need not hang its head in shame. A lot of things that are good and worthy are not popular. And baseball is plenty popular, for heaven's sake.
2010s, Baseball and Its Worriers (2018)
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