Question posed by Judge Landis

[darwinbulldog]

I suppose if it ever becomes popular in one of the larger countries, we haven't hit peak popularity yet. Barring that I guess it was back in the 1990s. It looks like that's when Litle League participation peaked, and it was also close to its current level of international (S. America, Caribbean, and East Asian) popularity by then. I suppose 1998 is correct.

[Hankphenom]

Not Bill Maher's, but MLB's. I predict that whatever decline baseball has experienced lately in its enormous attendance--25,000-30,000 per contest in a 162-game season followed by packed stadiums for a month of playoffs; what other sport comes even close to that level of interest?--will soon be reversed with the clock and other efforts to make the game watchable again. They have changed everything for me, I'll tell you. The rumors of this great game's imminent demise are decidedly premature, I think.

[jingram058]

I don't watch the game today. But I wish I had watched last night's Mariners - Yankees game. The Yankees, no hit through 7 innings, come back and win? That's crazy!