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Baseball’s streaming obsession is pricing out the young fan

How does someone become a baseball fan?

For some kids, their mother or father loved baseball for years and wanted to share their love of the game with their child. For some kids, maybe it was a grandparent or an uncle or aunt. Other kids perhaps have a friend who lived across the street who was really into baseball and introduced them to the game. Baseball cards and video games could also have been a gateway to the National Pastime, and let’s not overlook all the wonderful books, both easy and challenging to read, that chronicle the long and crazy history of Major League Baseball in America.