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
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
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!
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.