Americans: why do you think baseball is better than cricket?
829877
I am not sure that we think that baseball is better than cricket, it's just that we don't play cricket here, baseball, football, and basketball are our main sports. It just has to do with culture. If we played cricket here, and not baseball,then the situations would be reversed. I don't think any American walks around thinking about baseball being better than cricket.
850743
Here are two really good pages to explain it for an American. The second is good and uses baseball as a comparison, so you can compare it to something you know.\nhttp://www.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/ABOUT_CRICKET/EXPLANATION/CRICKET_EXPLAINED_AMERICAN.html\n\nhttp://members.tripod.com/~sccwa/crick.html
229229
Basketball of course. Who actually cares about cricket?
380214
Baseball is being played and loved for years in the US. It certainly would be a extremely remote possibility if Cricket could ever come remotely close to Baseball in the US in terms of popularity.\n\nHowever, you would find cricket being played in most parts of the country with immigrants from England, West Indies, South Asisn region and others.\n\nWith shorter versions of cricket like the 20-20, it might certainly gain some visibility in the US very soon.
594183
Baseball seems to be the most obvious one but theres still no proof it was derived from cricket or vice versa. I don't know of any other sport that may have been derived from cricket.
1099337
Likes the softball, softball is much easier than baseball. Softball is much bigger ball. And baseball is small ball with most speed at 90-100 mph in professional league like MLB.
603046
I like baseball.  Its one of the only team sports where an individual is credited for winning or losing a game.  Its it suspenseful (most of the time).  You don't need to play close attention to the enitre game.  It fu8n to cheer for your team, and its the most fulfilling when your team wins the world series.  I'd rather my team win the world series then and other sport.
767525
Brits of course who else? Outside of the Aussies who are by far the best in world...Americans they play baseball,not cricket.♥
1126586
of course football (soccer) is better that stupid baseball!!! baseball is even not recognized as olympic sport and FIFA world championship is the biggest sports event in the world, even bigger than olympic games!\n\nonly north americans don't get it, in the rest of the world every male child plays football in the street
892650
I agree that other countries are pretty much on the same level as the United States when it comes to baseball.  I don't think it's embarrassing at all.  It's just the normal evolution of the game world wide.  It had to happen one day.  Just look at basketball, another American game.  We don't dominate basketball either on the world circuit anymore.  There are great athletes all over the world in all sports.  One day I'd like to see a real world series.  The champions from all the leagues across the world play in a world championship tournament and crown a real "World Champion."
1134509
Cricket-its a better sport. Football-its just overall boring.
481302
baseball does not require anywhere near the degree of athletisim that sports like basketball, football and soccer do. What makes the game interesting is the matchups and strategy that you come to see only when you have a good grasp of the game. The most important of these is the pitching. How the pitcher mixes and chooses the placement of his pitches and the types of pitches he throws. I can understand how someone wouldn't like baseball its an aquired taste
592123
Those of you who think football is better need to pull your heads out of your butts.  Baseball has been here since 1847 and major league play started in 1871.  You think football is better because the season is shorter and is much easier to follow.  Don't get me wrong, I love football.  It's just that baseball has left its mark on our country.  Look at what our country's been through since that faithful May 4, 1871 when the Fort Wayne Kekiongas defeated the Cleveland Forest City 2-0.  We have been through war 5 different times, had 17 different presidents, went through a depression, and discovered 2 new planets.  The only thing that has been constant and kept all of us together was that great game we call baseball.  We dropped atomic bombs on 2 Japanese cities and baseball held us together.  The game has given America its real freedom.  You don't have to like it, you only have to respect it and imagine what America would be without it today.
54686
Before I got to the United States, I had seen only highlights of baseball games on TV.  All that music and fanfare had me believing baseball is paced like football, with lots of action.  Imagine my surprise when first watching an entire baseball game, to discover it has almost the leisurely, gentlemanly pace of cricket.  These two sports are said to have common origins in the English game of rounders, and they do invite comparison - the one choosing to run up and down on a single line, the other taking it to two dimensions and running around an entire square (or "diamond").\n\n\nIt's time we faced that all-important question: \nWhich is the "better" sport, baseball or cricket?\nSports fans - it's up to you to decide!\n\n\nWhen making your choice consider these factors:\n\nwhich sport is more fun to watch? \nwhich sport attracts the best fans? \nwhich sport generates the most interesting statistics? \nwhich sport requires more skill to play
350673
baseball is the only sport where you can fail 3 out of 10 times and still be considered successful,  besides what is there not to like about baseball. Trying to hit a round ball with a round bat, an inch is the difference between a homerun and a pop up. A sport where strength has nothing to do with your success. Baseball is a real life chess game between teams. I guess if youre into football and all the hitting then youlle be dissapointed by attempting to watch 9 innings of baseball. But baseball is just one of the sports you cant pick up right away and just be good, even if you are a natural athlete, and a players strongest attribute is his head, the real game of numbers. A pitcher can throw a no hitter and still lose, i can just sit here all day and think about what really makes me love baseball. and the guys like pujols, smoltz, clemens is what really make people love the game.
833376
Cricket is the most popular sport in the world.Football is well played \nin Europe and South America.The population of these two continents is around 1 billion.Cricket is very popular in the Indian subcontinent.The population there is around 1.5 billion.So,cricket is definitely more popular than football.
256178
It was  due to the fact that besides USA, and a few other countries, baseball is not played in any other countries. Furthermore, baseball was constantley one of the poorest attended sports when it came to the Olympics, Equestraian got more of an audiance than baseball.