The following is Part I of THE DAILY's analysis of "The
Body Count," which estimates that more than 422 million
spectators attended sporting events in the U.S. and Canada
during the '99-2000 sports calendar year. This lists the
full '99-00 pre- regular- and post-season figures for
baseball, broken down by league. While a few of these
figures are not exact, they do serve as one of the most
detailed estimates of the number of attendees of baseball
events over the 2000 season. Tomorrow: Football.
ALL-STAR/
BASEBALL PRE REGULAR PLAYOFFS OTHER TOTAL
MLB 3,026,578 70,279,112 1,280,612 34,187 74,620,489
MINOR LEAGUE -- 32,304,182 320,049 54,195 32,678,426
NCAA -- 3,198,480 609,374 n/a 3,807,854
Northern -- 1,976,013 69,400 4,645 2,050,058
Atlantic LG -- 1,116,278 10,501 5,500 1,132,279
Frontier LG -- 713,215 12,951 1,860 728,026
Texas/LA LG -- 561,360 20,000 3,201 584,561
Western LG -- 505,691 23,786 3,485 532,962
LLWS -- 172,000 -- -- 172,000
NBC -- 86,645 -- -- 86,645
TOTALS 116,393,300
NOTES: NCAA baseball regular season attendance numbers
include top 50 Div. I teams, top 15 Div. II teams and top
ten Div. III teams. NCAA 2000 baseball playoffs -- no
figures available, Attendance figures for Div. I, II, III
are estimates based on '98-99 figures.
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