Just ignore the fact they lost to a black man in 1936.For the Reich, I think we're lead to believe the more physically arduous the sport, the more prominent it is in the Reich. In the S01 episode 'Three Monkeys', Smith calls baseball a 'lazy sport, compared to track [running] or soccer'. So while baseball is still popular, I would imagine that has more to do with it being a leftover of pre-war American culture that the Nazis keep around to maintain the docility of the American public.