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SBD/Issue 57/The Back of the Book
Turnstile Tracker: Over 120 Million Swarm To Baseball
Published December 4, 2003
The following is Part II of THE DAILY'S "Turnstile Tracker," which estimates that over 466.7 million attended sporting events in the U.S. and Canada during the '02-03 sports year. Presented today are the full '02 pre-, regular- and post-season figures for baseball, broken down by league. While a few of these numbers are not exact, they serve as the most detailed estimates of the number of attendees of baseball events.
| BASEBALL |
PRE-SEASON
|
REGULAR SEASON
|
PLAYOFFS
|
ALL-STAR
|
TOTAL
|
| MLB |
3,115,651
|
67,941,211
|
1,568,735
|
41,871
|
72,667,468
|
| Minor |
n/a
|
35,497,010
|
383,184
|
62,493
|
35,942,687
|
| NCAA |
n/a
|
3,966,005
|
707,141
|
n/a
|
4,673,146
|
| Northern League |
n/a
|
2,451,482
|
80,204
|
4,972
|
2,536,658
|
| Atlantic League |
n/a
|
1,859,059
|
19,283
|
6,406
|
1,884,748
|
| Frontier League |
n/a
|
948,383
|
18,780
|
4,495
|
971,658
|
| Central League |
n/a
|
758,781
|
23,982
|
3,802
|
786,565
|
| Western League |
n/a
|
394,891
|
18,362
|
n/a
|
413,253
|
| Little League WS |
n/a
|
314,168
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
314,168
|
| NBC Tourney |
n/a
|
84,007
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
84,007
|
| BASEBALL TOTALS |
|
|
|
120,274,358
|
|
NOTES: ^ = National Baseball Congress tournament. NCAA Baseball regular-season attendance numbers include top 50 Division I teams, top 20 Division II teams and top ten Division III teams. NCAA Baseball playoff attendance figures are for Division I, II, and III. Minor League baseball numbers do not include Mexican League attendance of 3,543,206.
