Sometime late afternoon Saturday Ballpark Digest set a record for annual page views, with 10,265,887 so far for 2013. That’s slightly more than 2012 and 23 percent more than in 2011. When we launched ballparkwatch.com a decade ago, we didn’t dream it would turn into a full-fledged publishing company with multiple websites and books in […]
Tag Archives | 2012
MiLB hits 41M fans for ninth consecutive year
A nice postscript to the attendance figures we posted yesterday: in 2013 Minor League Baseball attracted over 41 million fans for the ninth year in a row. MiLB recorded a 2 percent hike in attendance, hitting 41,553,781 total fans in 2013, some 275,000 over 2012’s total. “To experience increases in total and average attendance is […]
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 […]
New ballpark pays off: Barons pace Southern League in attendance
A month into the season and the Birmingham Barons are pacing the Class AA Southern League in attendance, drawing 5,219 fans a game at their new home, Regions Field. Last season the Barons drew 204,269 fans to Regions Park, the team’s former home in Hoover, for an average of 3,847 fans per game. This year’s […]
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 […]
Prepping for the Baseball Winter Meetings
What do the Baseball Winter Meetings mean to you? “I know equally as many people who dread the Winter Meetings as who love them,” writes Jesse Goldberg-Strassler on the eve of baseball’s big event. The Meetings, depending upon your perspective, are a party, a chore, an adventure, a once Major League institution now mostly co-opted […]
Winter Meetings underway; lots of schmoozing in Nashville
The annual Baseball Winter Meetings launched over the weekend in Nashville, with plenty of schmoozing taking place last night in the spacious lobby area of the Gaylord Opryland; the Baseball Trade Show starts this afternoon. We’ll be in Booth 1328. Drop by for a chat. We’ll be posting from the show floor as well, and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]