Baseball or Basketball - what would do better here?

[Zassk]

I can only go by what I see in the kids' leagues in my area (Richmond). Baseball and softball have declining enrolments, have no strategy to attract new members, and have made no progress in skills development. They are losing their members mainly to the soccer and hockey associations, which have made great strides in self-promotion and in skills development in recent years, and are rapidly breaking down racial and gender boundaries.

Maybe it is different in other parts of the Lower Mainland, but what I see here is a systematic rejection of baseball by the young generation in favour of these other sports. This does not look like the kind of market that is ripe to support a professional baseball team.

Basketball is a different story. Basketball is not so much of a young kid's sport, so it's harder to judge on the same terms, but it seems to be really thriving at high school and up. Anecdotally, places like the Oval are heavily used for basketball, and new outdoor facilities are still being built for it. The "Steve Nash generation" seems to be going strong, regardless of the loss of the Grizzlies, and I get the impression that the NBA would do better here today than it did the first time around.