The slow writer bit was a joke. But the theory you mention has now been debunked.
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/%C2%93darwins-delay%C2%94-the-stuff-of-myth
Baseball is dying, and cricket has been beating it for 20 years. Biut it doesn't have to beat Baseball, or compete with basketball or soccer. It just has to open up. And through the markets that has already started to happen.
The slow writer bit was a joke. But the theory you mention has now been debunked.
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/%C2%93darwins-delay%C2%94-the-stuff-of-myth
Baseball is dying, and cricket has been beating it for 20 years. Biut it doesn't have to beat Baseball, or compete with basketball or soccer. It just has to open up. And through the markets that has already started to happen.