Popular Team Sports
The most popular team sports in the United States, measured by number of participants in 2009, are below. (Most figures are from the 2009 U.S. Census).
- Basketball (24.4 million)
- Baseball/Softball (23.3 million)
- Soccer (13.6 million)
- Volleyball (10.7 million)
- Football (8.9 million)
- Ice hockey (3.1 million)
- Lacrosse (684,730)
- Rugby (335,001)
The most popular team sports in the United States are basketball, baseball/softball, soccer, football and ice hockey. All five of these team sports are played by millions of Americans, have a fully professional league, and enjoy varsity status at various Division 1 colleges.
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“But popular rage,
Hysterica passio dragged this quarry down.
None shared our guilt; nor did we play a part
Upon a painted stage when we devoured his heart.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“I also heard the whooping of the ice in the pond, my great bed-fellow in that part of Concord, as if it were restless in its bed and would fain turn over, were troubled with flatulency and bad dreams; or I was waked by the cracking of the ground by the frost, as if some one had driven a team against my door, and in the morning would find a crack in the earth a quarter of a mile long and a third of an inch wide.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In the end, I think you really only get as far as you’re allowed to get.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)