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Baseball gives fans something the NFL and NBA can’t, and that’s why it will always keep its title as ‘America’s pastime’. While American football and basketball dominate the sports scene in the United States, commanding more national attention, more sold-out games and more media coverage, baseball still holds an important place at the heart of the nation. That’s according to award-winning US sports author Joe Posnanski, writer of New York Times bestselling book Why We Love Baseball .

It’s his love-letter to the sport he has watched from a boy, experiencing heartbreaking lows and ecstatic highs any English football fan would know all too well. As the 2024 MLB London Series came to a close, talkSPORT had a chat with Joe to explain why baseball is a sport fans across the pond can get behind, how it’s more similar to football than cricket, and why it’s a game worth following. People will tell you baseball is too slow, it doesn’t fit the times, and why would you love baseball when you can watch American football or basketball? Put simply, baseball is different to those sports.



There is something more about the personal connection. There’s a depth to a baseball fan’s love for the game, and it’s maybe bigger and greater than it is for other sports in America because of its deep connection to history, it’s deep connection to family and summer. To me, there’s something beautiful about why we love this sport.

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