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07-10-2025, 02:29 PM
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Early 1960's.
The NFL championship game of 1958 showed how exciting football could be on the medium of television. The popularity of the sport exploded. 
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07-10-2025, 02:38 PM
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Question:
What other sport could sustain interest over 200+ games a year? Answer: not a one. The others are great, but the Babe said it best in his farewell: "The only real game, I think, is baseball." I have no idea what he meant by that, but hey, it's the Babe!
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07-10-2025, 03:37 PM
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Question
When I first read this question the first thing that came to mind was the decade of the 1970s. But baseball likes metrics so I looked up some numbers. I looked at year by year World Series viewership and this is what I found. The highest average Series game viewership for any year 1968 to 2024 was in 1978. The 1978 World Series had 44.279 million viewers, the highest ever. Compare this to 1998 with 20.34 million viewers or the lowest all-time in 2023 with 9 million viewers. So yes according to this baseball peaked in 1978.
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07-10-2025, 04:15 PM
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Average MLB game attendance peaked in 2007
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07-10-2025, 06:25 PM
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I believe baseball's greatest era came in 1945-49. There was never a time where baseball was more popular than during the waning days of WWII, and during the next few years. Attendance starts going crazy in late 1945. The war had just ended, and soldiers were coming home in large numbers. Night games were suddenly the rage. MLB attendance in 1945 hit 10 million for the first time, and doubled to 20 million in three years. Baseball Reference lists 70 different professional leagues that operated in 1947 — compare that to today. There was minor league baseball in literally hundreds of cities and towns across the country. In 1950, TV comes out, and it's another 12 years before MLB has 20 million fans, and expansion is needed to make it happen. Also, Cuban baseball and women's baseball thrived like never before or since. On a relative level, baseball's true Golden Age happens right after WWII — there was never a time when a greater percentage of the population was fixated on the game.
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07-10-2025, 06:44 PM
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1955. Not a dodgers fan but the local caring/ local players/ loyalty began to decline after the west coast expansion.
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07-10-2025, 06:48 PM
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The game peaked in 1874.
After that, the weak new younger players started using gloves. What's next? No more outs in foul ground on one bounce? Well, of course. I don't even recognize the game after that era. I wouldn't mind going back and taking a train into the city to see my favorite players before they died of tuberculosis in their mid-30s.
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07-10-2025, 08:09 PM
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When Roger Maris broke the single season home run record in 1961 there were 23,000 fans in attendance in a stadium that holds 67,000. It was a Sunday afternoon. Fans were probably more interested in watching NFL (and AFL) football on TV. The day before only 19,000 fans showed up. Big college football day.
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