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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
In terms of the worry about a declining interest in baseball, I offer the following chart for discussion. It plots the MLB per game average attendance against the total population of the U.S. This allows one to see what relationship, if any, exists between the two.
For the purposes of the graph, I divided the national U.S. population figure by 10,000 for each year to put it on a similar scale as the per game attendance figure.
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Yeah, I decided not to go down the attendance route because I think it is a little bogus. Yes, clearly teams sell more tickets now than before. However, I think it is more corporate now with less 'fans' at the game. Sure, the people who use corporate seats might be fans. But I think they are there because they can be, not because they want to be. If there was a true attendance demand, ratings would be higher too.
Not totally bogus. But not exactly telling either.