The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid

I recently watched "The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid" a 1972 Western about the James-Younger Gang. Cliff Roberston, playing Cole Younger, is casing the town for a bank robbery (in 1876). The townspeople take him to a baseball game and tell him that it is the "new national pastime." Younger replies, "Nonsense. The national pastime is shooting. Always has been, always will be."