Baseball, our national pastime, the great American sport, the ‘faith of 50 million fans’, is in decline.
Attendance at games peaked in 2007, and has been flat or in a slight decline ever since.
Last year, of the 26 most watched sporting events of the year in the US, none was a baseball game (full disclosure, only one was a soccer match - the Women’s USA-Japan World Cup Final.) On a global scale, there’s no reliable source - I clicked to a lot of Buzzfeed-type slideshows and listicles just to find nothing conclusive.