March 30, 2009

Attendance Drop

Via MLB Fanhouse, MLB is expecting an attendance drop this year:

Baseball sources said that based on ticket-sales efforts to date, the league will likely draw about 75 million fans for the season, a sum that would be below the totals for each of the last three seasons and about 6 percent below the sport’s high-water mark of 79.5 million in 2007. Individual clubs are in a day-to-day fight to stem against that or further declines by implementing a wide range of discounted ticket offers and delaying the start of single-game sales to dates closer to the start of the regular season.

Seventy five million in this economy seems pretty good. Over the last decade baseball brought the player’s share of revenue down from close to 60% to a bit above 40%. That gives them a nice cushion to weather this economy.

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