from this morning's Street and Smith's Sports Business Journal (10/6):
MLB attendance ends strong, but no record
By ERIC FISHER
Staff writer
Published October 06, 2008 : Page 08
"Major League Baseball’s four-year run of attendance records is over, but Commissioner Bud Selig has not abandoned his goal of reaching 80 million in aggregate ticket sales.
MLB ended the 2008 regular season with total attendance of more than 78.6 million, down about 1 percent from last year but still the second-best mark in league history. Selig had planned to cross the 80 million mark this season, and strong season-ticket sales for many clubs last winter suggested the goal would indeed be met.
A tough combination of a sharply declining national economy and wet weather in a variety of individual markets, however, dulled advance individual game and walk-up purchases considerably. Fifteen clubs declined at the gate this year, compared with just seven last season. Five teams fell by double-digit percentages in 2008." ...
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