From our friends at The Biz of Baseball:
MLB Attendance Projected To Increase Significantly
↵↵According to a report in this week’s SportsBusiness Journal, “Commissioner Bud Selig declined to project a specific attendance increase for the season. But after drawing 73.06 million fans in 2010, down 0.4 percent from 2009, this year’s total will likely fall somewhere between 75 million and 78 million, an increase of 3 percent to 7 percent.”
↵↵Coming after three straight seasons with small declines in MLB attendance, an increase of three or more percent would represent a huge improvement. But this really shouldn’t come as a huge surprise. For all the naysayers and the polls and the ridiculous notion that baseball is somehow dying, the sport is incredibly popular in America. They only way to really hurt the game is to lose a season (or part of a season) to a strike or lockout. And I don’t think anyone is that stupid.
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