Many Really Don't Care If They Ever Come Back

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Baseball may be enshrined in cliché as “the national pastime,” but the number of people picking it as their favorite spectator sport is slipping toward single digits. In a Gallup poll conducted just before the new season began, a mere 12 percent of respondents chose baseball as their “favorite sport to watch.” That’s down from 13 percent last year and from 21 percent as recently as 1994. Football held top honors (28 percent), followed by basketball (16 percent).

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