WSJ: "Why Kids Aren't Watching Baseball".

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10-31-2013, 10:16 AM

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WSJ: "Why Kids Aren't Watching Baseball".

Slightly O/T article from today's Wall Street Journal:
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/...39786?mod=e2tw

and another similar (albeit more detailed) one from the Atlantic Monthly entitled "Why Kids Are Losing Interest in Baseball":
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertain...seball/281017/

Some highlights:
The average World Series viewer this year is 54.4 years.

Kids age 6 to 17 represented just 4.3% of the average audience for the American and National League Championship Series this year.

Little League Baseball, which represents about two-thirds of the world's youth baseball, had 2.1 million players last year, compared with 2.6 million in 1997.

Sad overall really. I have to think that this will no doubt negatively affect the hobby moving forward.

Thoughts?

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