The Portland Sea Dogs (Class AA; Eastern League) are nearing a franchise milestone: the team is expecting to welcome the seven millionth fan in franchise history sometime during the next homestand, running June 27-July 3. The Sea Dogs are 20,572 fans away from the milestone. The 7-millionth fan will receive a Sea Dogs prize package consisting […]
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New Hampshire, Akron set attendance marks over weekend
Two Class AA Eastern League teams reached nice milestones over the Memorial Day weekend, as the Akron Aeros and the New Hampshire Fisher Cats set franchise attendance marks. First: the Fisher Cats drew 8,107 on a beautiful afternoon at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium, the largest Sunday crowd in franchise history and the seventh largest all-time. […]
New ballpark boon for Creighton
The move to TD Ameritrade Park by the Creighton Blue Jays has been a boon when it comes to attracting fans to games, as the team is drawing 8,170 fans a game this season. Of course, that number is a little skewed: it includes the 22,197 buying tickets for the opening of the ballpark. Take […]
Why early-season attendance numbers don’t matter
ESPN took a shot at the New York Yankees today for suffering through an 9 percent drop in attendance through the first 11 games of the season when compared to 2010. Here’s why ESPN was totally wrong in the simplistic and misleading “analysis” of the numbers. For any MLB or MiLB team the first two […]
Crunching the 2011 Florida spring-training numbers
Attendance at Grapefruit League games at Florida spring-training facilities was slightly higher in 2011 than in 2010, but overall attendance been a little down since record numbers were set in the middle of this decade. A total of 1,571,196 fans attended Florida spring-training games this past spring. That’s higher than last year’s tally of 1,427,627 […]
Razorbacks set new attendance mark
It was a big Saturday night for the Arkansas Razorbacks, as the team rallied to defeat SEC archrival LSU, and the school set a Baum Stadium attendance record. The actual attendance of 11,103 and the paid attendance of 11,462 were both Baum Stadium records. The previous attendance records of 11,434 (paid) and 11,014 (actual) were […]
Cubs notch lowest attendance since 2002
The Chicago Cubs have been a box-office machine in recent years, but yesterday Wrigley Field saw its smallest crowd in nine years, with only 26,292 showing up for a matinee against the Arizona Diamondbacks on a chilly, windy Monday. Harbinger or aberration? Of course, many teams would be happy with announcing 26,292 fans in the […]
Parsing the spring-training attendance numbers
With Spring Training 2011 now over, it’s time to look at the winners and losers in the annual tune-up to the Major League Baseball season, with over 3.5 million fans attending games in Florida, Arizona and other exhibition venues. There are actually a few different sets of spring-training numbers floating around out there: MLB tallies […]
More on the attendance front: Richmond, Clearwater set season marks
With the end of the season this past Labor Day weekend, plenty of teams are reporting attendance records. Two of the more noteworthy: the new Richmond Flying Squirrels set a franchise record while pacing the Eastern League in attendance, and the Clearwater Threshers once agains set a season mark. On Sunday night a sellout at […]
H-Sens set season attendance record
The renovations to Metro Bank Park and a Stephen Strasburg stint at the beginning of the season paid off: The Harrisburg Senators (Class AA; Eastern League) set several attendance records in 2010, including a season attendance record and the four largest crowds ever in team history. Attendance this season certainly would have gone up, as […]
ValleyCats poised to break attendance record
The Tri-City ValleyCats (short season A; NY-Penn League), in their ninth-season, will host their final homestand of the 2010 regular season on Saturday night at Joseph L. Bruno Stadium, and for the seventh consecutive year, the ‘Cats will once again break their single season attendance record. It will take 7,809 fans to break their all-time […]
Sky Sox set attendance record
It’s been a good year for the Colorado Springs Sky Sox (Class AAA; Pacific Coast League): the team broke its team attendance record tonight after welcoming 5,426 fans through the gates Saturday night against Salt Lake. The 305,168 fans to enter Security Service Field so far in 2010 surpass the previous record figure of 303,048 […]
Biscuits set to welcome 2-million fan tonight
The Montgomery Biscuits will reach a significant milestone in team history: the 2-millionth fan to attend a Biscuits game will be feted tonight. Tonight the Montgomery Biscuits (Class AA; Southern League) will welcome the two-millionth fan to walk through the Riverwalk Stadium gates. The lucky fan will be showered with confetti and balloons, and will […]