I don’t think there’s any way to prove this but I’d offer that in any era, a ten year old in the stands of an MLB game is going to have a pretty divided attention span
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Not in mine. We went to the game and were indeed engaged. It was a far superior product back in the late 70s than what we are seeing now.
aug 13, 2025, 9:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Then it mustve stopped in the 70s. The norm for kids in the 80s and 90s was to kinda check in and out of the game while walking around and generally acting like kids, making paper planes, that sorta thing. Guess the game just coincidentally peaked at the point you seem to recall it most romantically
aug 13, 2025, 9:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Well, we did make paper planes...but we were still in our seats, with the game going on. The difference is that the stadiums back then offered nothing else but the game. If I'd gone to a game only to ask my dad to take me and my friends to the playground in leftfield, there would have been words LOL
aug 13, 2025, 9:41 pm • 1 0 • view
It sounds like a common theme that ballgames and childhood go together very well, and we both hope to see that in the future if the game!
aug 13, 2025, 10:03 pm • 0 0 • view
I agree...I am only voicing a concern that youngsters playing the game may not be as intetested in watching it at the MLB level. And I really can't blame em.
aug 13, 2025, 10:14 pm • 0 0 • view