Summary: American culture is obsessed with sports. More than 67,000 fans attend each National Football League game and more than 30,000 fans attend each Major League Baseball game. Millions of fans watch these sports on television. When did America become filled with sports nuts? When did the business of professional sports become a thing in the United States? Early American history has answers as does Kenneth Cohen, author of They Will Their Game: Sporting Culture and the Making of the American Republic.
