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America’s National Pastime Unlike professional basketball and American football, interest in baseball has not been sweeping the globe . Declining participation at the amateur level and protracted labor problems at the professional level have thrust "America's Pastime" into an era of uncertainty. Despite this current adversity, baseball will always occupy an important place in American culture. Baseball over the years has been losing in popularity. Every year the ratings on T.V. decline steadily. This is in part due to the fact that baseball cannot compete with other sports such as basketball and football. With these two sports fans receive a greater amount of immediate stimuli, which in turn leads to more satisfaction overall. In baseball the build up is far and in-between. It is the primitive idea of crushing your opponent that many men crave and baseball often times fails to deliver this desire. In football it may be a powerful hit delivered onto someone, or in basketball a massive dunk which displays dominance. These actions show superiority of one over the other, which in sports is the main goal strived for. In baseball it is the combination of mental strategy that gives one dominance, which doesn’t satisfy many who