Atlanta Braves fans may not have noticed in the mid-90s while they were celebrated the team's first World Series title in Atlanta, but baseball was a dying sport.
After an ugly fight that led to the cancellation of the 1994 season, a lot of fans didn't come back when baseball returned.
For the most part, you can say that the 1998 season when Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa hit home runs at an alarming rate -- that apparently no one questioned at the time --- was the moment that a lot people came back to the sport.