The Blue Jays, Rangers and A's are the only AL clubs seeing home attendance gains through May 10, and all three teams are seeing double-digit percentage growth during that time period. Blue Jays attendance is up nearly 46% through 16 home games at Rogers Centre, while the Rangers have seen attendance jump 35% in Arlington. A's attendance has also picked up at Overstock.com Coliseum, with the team's home gate up 14.5%. However, AL clubs overall are down 2.1% at the gate compared to the same period last year. Three teams -- the Orioles, Mariners and Rays -- are seeing double-digit percentage drops at the gate. Listed below is team-by-team attendance for the AL through May 10, with comparisons to the same period last year. See yesterday's issue of THE DAILY for figures from NL clubs (THE DAILY).
| MLB AMERICAN LEAGUE ATTENDANCE THROUGH MAY 10 |
| HOME TEAM | GMS | TOTAL | AVG. | % CAP. | PREV. | % +/- | GMS ('10) |
| Yankees | 19 | 788,427 | 41,496 | 82.4% | 44,269 | -6.3% | 12 |
| Angels | 18 | 694,007 | 38,556 | 84.9% | 39,342 | -2.0% | 18 |
| Twins | 11 | 422,755 | 38,432 | 97.3% | 38,657 | -0.6% | 16 |
| Red Sox | 20 | 748,374 | 37,419 | 100.3% | 37,505 | -0.2% | 21 |
| Rangers | 21 | 744,066 | 35,432 | 72.1% | 26,205 | 35.2% | 17 |
| Tigers | 16 | 400,900 | 25,056 | 60.7% | 27,030 | -7.3% | 13 |
| White Sox | 16 | 354,888 | 22,181 | 54.6% | 22,843 | -2.9% | 19 |
| Blue Jays | 16 | 353,919 | 22,120 | 44.9% | 15,208 | 45.5% | 17 |
| Orioles | 18 | 371,429 | 20,635 | 44.9% | 24,163 | -14.6% | 12 |
| Mariners | 19 | 374,238 | 19,697 | 41.5% | 25,944 | -24.1% | 18 |
| A's | 16 | 300,671 | 18,792 | 53.6% | 16,415 | 14.5% | 20 |
| Royals | 23 | 420,745 | 18,293 | 48.3% | 19,816 | -7.7% | 12 |
| Rays | 19 | 309,922 | 16,312 | 47.9% | 23,065 | -29.3% | 15 |
| Indians | 16 | 227,683 | 14,230 | 32.8% | 14,661 | -2.9% | 14 |
| AL TOTALS | 248 | 6,512,024 | 26,258 | 61.5% | 26,827 | -2.1% | 224 |
| MLB TOTALS | 528 | 14,684,840 | 27,812 | 64.2% | 28,105 | -1.0% | 477 |
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