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Most of the kids I know (high school teacher) played baseball (male and female, but moreso male) as young'uns, but left it once they reached high school. Organized baseball has become expensive with all of the traveling and many cannot afford it. Sadly, many do not watch it as it is too slow paced for them. MLB and its players do not appeal to this generation like the NFL and NBA leagues and players do. Too many of this generation sadly enjoy the messages from these sports.I gotta wonder if all the sound and visual effects at MLB parks are in part a response to a changing audience -- one that on balance doesn't understand the game as well as the fans of previous generations understood it. So the breaks in the on-field action get filled with all these spectacles, so that the attendees don't get bored and not come back.
I am old enough to remember when baseball truly was the national pastime. Every household had bats and balls and gloves and every kid played the game, one way or another, or so it seemed. I can't recall when I last saw a kid walking down the road with a bat resting on his shoulder, his glove hanging over the knob.