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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, baseball is still quite a bit more prevalent but the lead is shrinking at every level of the sport.  Even though lax is largely regional, its penetration of the regions in which players have access can't be dismissed.  Some thoughts to consider:

Participation in youth lacrosse (ages 6 through 13) nationwide has doubled over the last ten years from 220,000 athletes to 440,000. Over this same period, baseball has lost 1.0 million players and is now hovering at about 4 million. About a 10:1 ratio.

At the Division I college level there are 170, and growing,  total lacrosse programs when you combine the men's and women's game.  That same statistic for baseball plus softball is 600 programs, so less than a 4:1 ratio.  The average lacrosse program will carry more athletes and the lacrosse programs are concentrated at some of the best academic institutions.

At the Division III college level lacrosse is even stronger in terms of its profile.  400 programs combined w+m, and concentrated at the most highly rated colleges in the country.

I am not suggesting that you should play a sport strictly because it may be a path to college.  That said, the attention that lacrosse gets from the better colleges is disproportionate, and especially worthy of note when compared to baseball and its declining trends.

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