It is my opinion that this is why baseball lost out to football in the 1960’s. I would not say more athletic, but more muscular in stature when it came to players of the two games. There is an argument out there about football being more “team-orientated,” I disagree, but in the 1960’s the American public was looking for something different. They found it in the faster paced, more violent, team-orientated, contact sport known as football. I still have to say that football will never take away “America’s Greatest Pastime” sport as baseball. “In 1960, the great Roger Kahn wrote in Sport magazine that ‘There is no denying America’s love for baseball, but increasingly the greater excitement seems to be coming from football fields, and that is where it’s likely to be coming in the future.” (Barra,
It is my opinion that this is why baseball lost out to football in the 1960’s. I would not say more athletic, but more muscular in stature when it came to players of the two games. There is an argument out there about football being more “team-orientated,” I disagree, but in the 1960’s the American public was looking for something different. They found it in the faster paced, more violent, team-orientated, contact sport known as football. I still have to say that football will never take away “America’s Greatest Pastime” sport as baseball. “In 1960, the great Roger Kahn wrote in Sport magazine that ‘There is no denying America’s love for baseball, but increasingly the greater excitement seems to be coming from football fields, and that is where it’s likely to be coming in the future.” (Barra,