Baseball is less so. Maybe how football came to steal baseball's thunder is as simple as that. We couldn't imagine 100 channels, which is what people get now. All of these things accelerated the RPMs of our society. Our media culture demands things of baseball that it can't produce.
Baseball ebbs and flows.
It is tied to family and memory. It is still our national pastime in spirit. TV ratings are not down for baseball alone. Other sports are down, too. But baseball is diminished in other ways as well.