This Day in Baseball
History: August 25, 1946
It was on this date in 1946 that
the New York Yankees became the first team in MLB history to draw two million
fans in a season. The total attendance of 42,908 fans who watched the Yankees
drop a 7-2 decision to the Detroit Tigers, pushed the season total at Yankee
Stadium to 2,027,087. The Yankees would finish the season having drawn
2,265,512 paying customers up from 881,845 in 1945, and smashing the American
League record of 1,289,422 fans the Yankees drew in 1920 when playing at the
Polo Grounds.
But those numbers dwarf in
comparison to the attendance records that stand today. Nine times a team has
drawn over 4 million with the record being set by the Colorado Rockies who
played in Mile High Stadium (a football facility) when they first came into the
league in 1993. That year they drew 4,483,350. The New York Yankees have drawn
4 million four times (2005-2008), the Toronto Blue Jays three times (1991-93)
and the New York Mets once (2008).
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