Growing up, Baseball was life, my only ambition to wake up in the early mornings. During tournaments where games were scheduled early as nine in the morning, I would be at the field at seven. Sitting in the dugout, staring out in the field, waiting for the sun to clear the dew. During those years, the mid nineties, the league was composed of

With other sports having national icons to support their ratings, such as Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O’Neal, Mario Lemieux, Priest Holmes, and Tony Hawk, Baseball has a tough time rendering heroes for kids to envy. Sixty years back, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams, and Jackie Robinson, were all household names. Ask any average sports fan today, and they wouldn’t be able to name three all-star Baseball players. In many TV commercials, you will see a Basketball player advertising a pair of shoes. Adidas has Kobe Bryant featured for their line Kobe court shoes. The last Baseball player to appear in a TV ad was Rafael Palmeiro advertising Viagra.

seven or eight teams. As the years passed, the number of teams thinned. This past year a record low, three teams were put together. The worst place team still had the pleasure of the bronze medal. More kids are finding Xbox and Gamecube more entertaining than trotting around the bases after a long homerun.

The recent decline of TV ratings for the MLB, have been prompted by the beginning of a new football season. Nielsen Media Research, a company that reveals the amount of house

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