Literature in Baseball Crisis

When searching for articles and literature on crises involving Major League Baseball, I came across this particular book, Baseball In Crisis: Spiraling Costs, Bad Behavior, Uncertain Future written by Baseball In Crisis: Spiraling Costs, Bad Behavior, Uncertain Future in 2008. Below is a description of the book provided by Amazon:

"Recent polls have placed football ahead of baseball in popularity. Does this reflect football's rise or baseball's decline? Why has the national pastime--a title perhaps becoming inaccurate--fallen behind other major sports? Is the trend reversible?

This book identifies the most substantial and persistent issues that have impaired Major League Baseball's development. Chapters cover inflationary player, team and game costs; changes in baseball's fan base; congestion in urban areas that host big league ballclubs; the negligent and irrational actions (some of it criminal) of players, owners, league officials, and the players' union; and the maldistribution of power among the major league franchises. Six major reforms needed to boost the popularity of baseball are identified."


Baseball and football are much different sports. Football is full contact and baseball is more of a skill based sport. However, football has exceled in recent past and the 2010 Super Bowl was the most watched television program in the history of television. Football is played once a week, and fans can easily consider themselves "fanatics" because they only need to watch 3 hours a week. However, baseball is much more intense as they play at least 162 games at about 3 hours a game. Which may set up baseball fans to more likely overcome a baseball crisis. They have invested so much of their time into the sport and MLB that I would believe to think that they are more likely to remain with MLB.