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Where are all the baseball fans?

Many of us grew up loving baseball, but the reality is baseball is losing many of its fans. Just take look at the 2019 Yankee/Red Sox London game which barely gained traction in the midst of United States Women’s National Soccer and a wild NBA free agency that brought quite a few big names to New York.

Now, I know most of you are stats people so let me break it down. According to a 2018 Gallup poll only 9% of people are listing baseball as their favorite sport According to Yahoo Sport, stadium attendance in 2018 was the lowest since 2003 with the average attendance dropping below the 30,000.