As baseball’s attendance and TV audience decline, its grassroots popularity is booming, study finds
As baseball’s attendance and TV audience decline, its grassroots popularity is booming, study finds
Spring training for the 2019 Major League Baseball season opens today. Baseball is coming off a rough year, with declining TV ratings and its lowest attendance since 2003. But reports of the national pastime’s coming demise may be exaggerated: A new study finds that participation in the sport at the grassroots level is surging.
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