Future of the Hobby/ Responses needed

[the 'stache]

Originally Posted by chaddurbin

but...baseball IS dying.

I respectfully disagree.

Does the game completely captivate the nation's attention the way it did in the 50s and 60s? Nope. Back in the 50s and 60s, homes that had a television only had three channels. Fast forward to 2013, and everybody has a tablet, a laptop, a smart phone or a portable gaming system. Homes with 3 channels, or a radio, have been replaced by satellite television, or FIOS with HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, the Movie Channel, Starz, etc...200 hundred channels. There are more choices.

But this whole notion that baseball is dying is hogwash. Major League Baseball had the sixth highest attendance in history at 74,026,895. And young people? Maybe less kids play the game. But they are there. We have several family friends with kids, and a lot of them are playing baseball.

As far as the hobby goes, eventually, card companies like Topps will be forced to change their way of doing business, or they will go the way of the dodo bird. When forced to confront their own mortality, so to speak, they will make changes. They will realize that in order to survive, they need to attract new hobbyists.

I hope that the next MLB Commissioner make the changes necessary to attract more younger viewers. The game is great, and has so much to offer.