Why America Needs Baseball

In today’s landscape of sports and entertainment, many think that baseball—rather than our national pastime—is just one among an unlimited number of options. According to a survey done by Pew Research in 2023, when asked what they consider “America’s sport,” 53 percent of responders chose football. Baseball finished a distant second (27 percent) and basketball an even more distant third (8 percent). Yet, in the same survey, 62 percent of Americans said they do not follow sports very closely, if at all.