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Originally Posted by greymule
60 years ago every kid in America dreamed of being a big league ballplayer. Only three other sports had a nationwide following: college football, horse racing, and boxing. Today even American blacks have apparently lost interest (most in MLB today are from the Caribbean). High schools used to have a hundred kids try out for the baseball team; today, some of those same high schools can't even field a team.
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60 years ago, there weren't computers and video game systems.