I"m not sure if they can but there are so many stages to finally get to the big leagues vs football & basketball where you know the direct path to become professional. Baseball was my 1st love & the sport I started playing.
Yeah I love the redskins, but I really loved David Justice, maddux, smotz, glavine, sid bream, pendleton, blauser etc & just everything about the braves in the 90s. My son is 7 & is getting into sports. I will push him towards baseball because of the injury factor.
I would never let him play football because I've said before on here I played at every level except the NFL & I had over 10 documented concussions, torn acl, broken collar bone, broken forearm etc.. & I sometimes suffer from memory loss. Baseball is more safer sport & if my son can excelled at that then that would be good for me.
Imo, baseball can be boring to watch but fun to play. Our society now loves everything fast like b-ball & football so the attention span for casual baseball fans can waver fast.