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I doubt the DH has any noticeable impact on attendance. AL vs NL attendance more likely has to do with which teams are in which league. It's not like you have people who think, "Well, I want to go out to a game this weekend. Let's go to the Mets game because there's no DH there instead of the Yankees game."
There might be a small impact on the popularity of the sport as a whole, but whatever way they go, people will adapt. Whenever they do end up adopting the DH everywhere will be more about the fact that pitchers are terrible hitters, and "protecting" pitchers, than it will be about popularity. And people may not like the DH, but they like offense, so those 2 forces would likely cancel each other out.
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