Seems to me that anymore baseball is much more democratic in general. More games, generally the cost is lower, not much of a chance to have some asshead pour a beer on your kid's head.
Baseball can have greater participation across the city than football can because of the cost of tickets and the much smaller number of games.
This has always been a baseball town, it just took us 15 years to get over the bitterness over the strike and years of non-ownership and then ownership that hadn't quite figured out that fielding a winner could be more profitable than fielding a team that was always just on the cusp of breaking through.
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