How Big A Crowd Is 400 People?

This has to do with baseball, I promise. It builds to a crescendo that, at the end, will make you take off your glasses and rub your forehead in disbelief, much like the first time you realized that Bruce Willis was dead the whole time in The Sixth Sense.*

*spoiler warning

How large a group is 400 people? Some selections from around the internet, for perspective:

From SouthReporter.com:

The Second Annual Blues Harmonica Clinic drew good attendance May 20-22. The clinic opened in Oxford Friday and continued at Foxfire Ranch south of Waterford Saturday and Sunday.About 400 people attended the event, according to Willie Wilkerson, Hill Country blues documentarian in Holly Springs and director of the Hill Country Blues Foundation, Inc.

From the New York Post:

When you’re at a function whose sole purpose is to match so-called “sugar daddies” with their prospective “sugar babies,” you expect the gentlemen to pick up the bar tab — and a whole lot more.The party (was) sponsored by the sugar-daddy Web site SeekingArrangement.com ... About 400 people registered for the mixer.

From the BBC:

Organisers of a mass skinny dip on a Gower beach have claimed a new world record after hundreds of naked swimmers took to the sea. Almost 400 people took part in the Midsummer Skinny Dip at Rhossili.From the Washington Post:

About 400 people with tickets to Super Bowl XLV lost their seats ... because of safety problems with temporary seats installed for the game, according to the NFL.From KOLD News 13:

MHC Healthcare hosted an open house on Friday, August 12 and about 400 people attended the event.Built for a New Generation was hosted to welcome the public to see and experience their health center!

Vision Church’s band, Toby & Friends, played 60 &70’s tunes on the Ora Mae Harn patio.

From the Alaska Star:

The score was 7-4, but the outcome of the historic Alaska Baseball League game on Saturday, July 9 between the Athletes in Action Fire and Anchorage Glacier Pilots won’t be known for some time....The game was well attended, with event organizers estimating about 400 people showed up

From this guy’s Xanga post in 2005:

welp tonight was nuts this party i went to had about 400 people there, it was crazy as all hell!!! wow best party iv been too.. It rocked but it got busted lol it was fun running to my car and speeding away from the cops iv had plenty of practice at it so it wasnt to bad haha Maher you rock man cant wait to go to Columbia with ya this summer it will be sweet! well anyway I think there may be another party tomarrow and yes Sagan we have to go you so missed out kid just dont runaway again lol be nice to your mommy! she looked like a sweet lady.From the New York Daily News:

Marlins fan Justin Cohen noticed a few empty seats at Sun Life Stadium -not exactly a rarity - on a sunny Wednesday afternoon for Game 1 of a doubleheader with the Cincinnati Reds.He decided he would count the number of fans in attendance.

By hand.

He then posted his unofficial findings on Twitter (@790Justin): 347 die-hards in the building.