{"id":18045,"date":"2008-01-15T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/americas-pastime\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:43:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:43:26","slug":"americas-pastime","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2008\/01\/15\/americas-pastime\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Pastime?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the Atlanta Braves and Washington Nationals open the baseball season Sunday night, only 38% of Americans say they are especially looking forward to the World Series this year according to a January Pew survey. That is a 13-percentage point decline from 1988, when 51% of Americans said they were especially looking forward to the Fall Classic. The presidential election (70%) was the most anticipated event of 2008, with the Olympics (52%) and Super Bowl (49%) more popular sporting events for Americans. <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/pubs\/679\/the-publics-not-so-happy-new-year\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/databank\/dailynumber\/?NumberID=443\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/assets\/datatrends\/numbers\/443-front.gif\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:5px;margin-bottom:5px;border:0px\" alt=\"Baseball\" \/><\/a>That&#8217;s the proportion of adults who said they were especially looking forward to baseball&#8217;s World Series according to a January Pew survey, down 13 points from 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