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2013 Summer-Collegiate Attendance by League

It’s that time of year again: with the summer-collegiate leagues wrapping up their regular seasons, it’s time to assemble the attendance stats. We begin with a look at summer-collegiate attendance by league. We list the numbers for 2013 and 2012 to give you an idea of how teams and leagues fared year to year. Be […]

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McGonagle named 2012 King of Baseball

A well-deserved honor: Bluefield Blue Jays President George McGonagle, who has been with the rookie Appalachian League club for more than 50 years, was named 2012 “King of Baseball” tonight at the annual Baseball Winter Meetings Banquet. The “King of Baseball” is a long-standing tradition in which Minor League Baseball salutes a veteran from the […]

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Terlecky named FCBL Executive of the Year

Our old friend Bill Terlecky received a nice honor today: the general manager of the North Shore Navigators was named the summer-collegiate Futures Collegiate Baseball League’s 2012 Executive of the Year. The announcement was made by FCBL commissioner, Chris Hall, as part of the league’s annual post-season awards. This represents the inaugural Executive of the […]

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2012 Major League Baseball Attendance

Our last attendance summary of 2012: here we rank the 30 MLB teams by average, with some surprises and some disappointments on the year-to-year front. Here’s the final tally for attendance this season for Major League Baseball teams. We list both the total attendance and the average per-game attendance. Our comparisons are based on the […]

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Rangers set team attendance record

Nice attendance record for the Texas Rangers: With a crowd of 48,089 in Sunday night’s game, the team finished the 2012 home season with a final attendance of 3,460,280 in 81 dates at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. The Rangers’ previous club records were a total attendance of 2,946,969 in 2011 and an average of 40,374 […]

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2012 Baseball Attendance by Average

Here is the Big Kahuna of attendance rankings: we’ve combined our rankings of affiliated, independent and summer-collegiate attendance rankings into one, huge, 388-team list. This covers every affiliated, most independent and most summer-collegiate teams. A few indy leagues don’t report attendance, and many smaller summer-collegiate leagues either don’t charge for admission or track attendance. Still, […]

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2012 Independent Attendance by Average

Our final independent-baseball attendance ranking of the day: Here are 2012 independent attendance numbers, listed by average. These numbers are for the top indy league who actually report attendance figures; there are others who do not. (Yeah, we’re looking at you, Freedom and Pecos leagues.) This season saw the loss of multiple independent teams, with […]

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2012 Independent Attendance by Total

More attendance goodness for you today: here are the 2012 independent-league attendance rankings, listed by total. These numbers are for the top indy league who actually report attendance figures; there are others who do not. (Yeah, we’re looking at you, Freedom and Pecos leagues.) This season saw the loss of multiple independent teams, with the North […]

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