01-22-2025, 01:26 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RMc
(In real life, the National Association charged 50¢ per ticket when it began play in 1871. Based on the AI financials in OOTP, I don’t know how those teams weren’t swimming in cash.)
Retrosheet has attendance figures for about three-quarters of NA games (774 out of 1,086), with an average of 1,564. Here are the averages by city:
Chicago 3,688
St Louis 1,807
Boston 1,561
Philadelphia 1,487
Troy 1,385
Cleveland 1,375
Washington 1,339
Hartford 1,304
Brooklyn 1,080
Rockford 1,040
Baltimore 983
New Haven 629
Fort Wayne 588
Keokuk 535
It's no mystery: the big cities stayed in big-time baseball, while the Keokuks and Fort Waynes dropped out. But when you consider (at least) 1.2 million people attended NA games, producing $600K+ in revenue...
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I have to say: credit where credit is due to Troy & Hartford. Troy only had about 45,000 in 1870, and Hartford was under 40K.
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