Football vs. Baseball Baseball vs. Football: Which Is The True American Pastime? In today’s world of big time professional sports there are the two major players and they are football represented by the National Football League (NFL) and baseball represented by Major League Baseball (MLB). Now there are other sports that the American public enjoys watching, however the argument generally boils down to which sport is the true favorite of the American people: baseball …showed first 75 words of 490 total…

…showed last 75 words of 490 total…system of luxury taxing in MLB but that system expired in 2000 so there are currently no salary obstacles to players in baseball. In conclusion it all comes down to preference, what you prefer to watch. I watch baseball during baseball season and football during football season. But statistics show that the American culture prefers football as I have shown with my research. All though baseball maybe America’s past time, football is America’s game.