"Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day"
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The subtext is about cultural real estate. A weekly sport can dominate Sundays; a daily sport colonizes the calendar. It becomes background music for summer, an excuse to gather, a nightly score check, a rhythm that fits into ordinary life rather than demanding an appointment. Ueberroth is pointing to a uniquely American dynamic: baseball (the sport he most famously helped modernize and monetize) as a companionable constant, not an event product. That distinction matters when you’re trying to justify broadcast deals and keep a sprawling season from looking like a liability.
Context sharpens the intent. Coming from Ueberroth - who ran Major League Baseball and later the Olympics - the quote reads as executive pragmatism dressed up as nostalgia. It flatters fans by calling their attention “daily,” but it also normalizes consumption: if the sport is always there, you’re never really off the clock. The genius is how it makes scale feel intimate, turning an industrial-length season into a feature of comfort and belonging.
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Ueberroth, Peter. (n.d.). Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/other-sports-play-once-a-week-but-this-sport-is-126194/
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Ueberroth, Peter. "Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day." FixQuotes. Accessed February 2, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/other-sports-play-once-a-week-but-this-sport-is-126194/.
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"Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/other-sports-play-once-a-week-but-this-sport-is-126194/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.


