A rehab appearance by Derek Jeter helped the Trenton Thunder (Class AA; Eastern League) draw 9,212 fans on Sunday, July 3 to set a new franchise record for single-game attendance, surpassing the 9,134 fans that attended Roger Clemens appearance in a Thunder uniform on May 23, 2007. Jeter played the second of a two-game rehab […]
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Twins set spring attendance record — in Florida
As spring training winds down, we’ll be looking at the winners and losers of 2011. The first big winner of 2011: the Minnesota Twins, who set a Florida spring-training attendance record at Hammond Stadium. The Twins drew 129,453 fans to 16 games at Hammond Stadium this spring. It’s a record for fans attending spring Twins […]
Twins set attendance record in first Target Field season
You don’t think there was some pent-up demand for outdoor baseball in Minnesota? The Twins set a season attendance record at Target Field yesterday, despite playing at a very small venue by MLB standards. “We are thrilled to have achieved this record during our Inaugural Season at Target Field,” said Dave St. Peter, Twins President. […]
Beach Bums set attendance record, make playoffs for first time
It’s been an exceedingly good year for the Traverse City Beach Bums (independent; Frontier League): the team set a single-game attendance record on the season closer on a year that saw the team make the league playoffs. This means there will be a first-ever playoff game at Wuerfel Park, the team’s home for its first […]
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 […]