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Originally Posted by majesty95
Ok, so basically it affects budgets because of market size but has zero effect on attendance and fan interest.
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I believe market size does have an effect on attendance. Attendance is, I think, based on a combination of market size and fan interest. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong.
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Originally Posted by majesty95
My thought is that that the Federal League hurt itself by duplicating teams in smallish markets like Kansas City, Pittsburgh and St. Louis instead of focusing on where the population is in New York (mostly), Chicago and Philly.
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Well, the FL was the only major-league game in town in KC. Pittsburgh was the eight-largest city in the US according to the 1910 census, and St. Louis was the fourth-largest, so it's not like the FL was locating teams in Akron. And the FL did have a team in NYC - it's just that it was located in Brooklyn. Additionally, in 1915, the Indianapolis club moved to Newark, so there was an effort to put more teams in the NYC area (Harry Sinclair, one of the big-money men behind the FL, wanted a team in NYC, and, if the FL had survived, the Newark club probably would have moved across the Hudson).