Perhaps Baseball is truly America’s Sport, but it didn’t take the title of “most written about” until the mid-1980’s:
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Perhaps Baseball is truly America’s Sport, but it didn’t take the title of “most written about” until the mid-1980’s:
(Created with Google Books Ngram Viewer.)
I think there should be a discount applied to the “football” stat line due to the soccer dual meaning. Hard to know how many American English books were discussing soccer as “football”, but perhaps it could explain the large lead “football” developed in the 1930s.