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I have to say that I'm partial to soccer, as it's the sport I've played throughout my life and thus I appreciate it more. However, as quasi and bearcub stated, I don't think you can say that one is really "harder" than the other. They require different skill sets, but particularly when you start getting competitive, they are both very difficult. Everyone playing at a certain level has a base set of skills, so what sets apart the best players is how they capture the particular strategies and nuances of that particular sport. An excellent soccer player may not be able to play baseball worth a damn, and vice versa. Same goes with just about any other serious sport. I will say that adjusting to foot-eye coordination is very difficult for some people, plus the fact that you have to be skilled with both feet in order to play at a certain level. The level of fitness required is difficult to achieve...but once you have these basic issues covered, the real challenge in soccer is the strategy of pulling your opponents out of position to enable you to catch them off-balance, as well as the sense of flow you have to develop as a team without having the opportunity to take breaks and strategize your next moves. You have to be interchangeable, to some extent, to be a decent team - save for the keeper.
But I know that a whole different set of skills are required to play baseball, and while I suck at it and really don't enjoy playing it - I appreciate the skill required to play well. My grandfather was a professional player, so I've been told my entire life I should have played. I played one year, we lost every game, and I hated the waiting and the anticipation of being hit by a small, hard ball traveling at high velocity.
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