The 87th All-Star Game will be tonight, and every year there seems to be less and less interest in the midsummer exhibition game pitting baseball’s best stars. Ratings have been slumping for decades, and while some of that is an increasingly fragmented television market, the decline and the drop-off in World Series television ratings speaks to the decline in national interest for baseball’s biggest events.
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Despite baseball’s dethroning as the America’s favorite sport by football, it remains a very popular game. Baseball has evolved from a national pastime to a regional sport, with fans only caring about their own local nine.