portent in itself. Baseball moved West in an attempt to retain 
an audience after TV struck. The characteristic mode of the 
baseball game is that it features one-thing-at-a-time. It is a 
lineal, expansive game which, like golf, is perfectly adapted to 
the outlook of an individualist and inner-directed society. 
Timing and waiting are of the essence, with the entire field in 
suspense waiting upon the performance of a single player. By 
contrast, football, basketball, and ice hockey are games in 
which many events occur simultaneously, with the entire team 
involved at the same time. With the advent of TV, such 
isolation of the individual performance as occurs in baseball 
became unacceptable. Interest in baseball declined, and its 
stars, quite as much as movie stars, found that fame had 
some very cramping dimensions. Baseball had been, like the 
movies, a hot medium featuring individual virtuosity and stellar 
performers. The real ball fan is a store of statistical information