Franchises

COMERICAN BEAUTY: TIGERS HOPE FOR RECORD SEASON TICKET SALES

3.28.2000

          Tickets for the Tigers' inaugural season at Comerica
     Park "are in such demand" that the team's season attendance
     record "could fall" in 2000, according to Mark Puls of the
     DETROIT NEWS.  The Tigers have already sold 1.6 million
     tickets with 14 days left until their first game at Comerica
     Park on April 11 against the Mariners.  The team's season
     attendance record of 2.7 million was set in '87 when it won
     its last divisional title.  Roughly 10,000-20,000 tickets
     and "as many as" 700 ticket packages covering 20 games are
     being sold each week, and the team has sold 16,000 season
     tickets so far, up from 11,490 last year.  The Tigers drew
     around two million last season at Tiger Stadium, and if they
     sell out every seat at Comerica Park this year, their
     attendance would "hit" 3.2 million (DETROIT NEWS, 3/28).

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