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...
View Article2012 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...
View ArticleTerlecky 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...
View ArticleWinter 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...
View ArticlePrepping 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...
View ArticleMcGonagle 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View Article2013 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...
View ArticleMiLB 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,...
View ArticleTen million thanks this holiday season
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...
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