Football can't match the illustrious history that baseball brings to the table.  The players, the myths, the legends, the Hall of Famers, all larger than life.

You have players like Willie Mays, Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Joe Dimaggio, Honus Wagner, all of them who don't seem human.  Then you got the records, Dimaggio's 56-game hitting streak, the shot heard round the world, Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier.  Football can't say they have that.