Soon, Marshall had a modest fan club.
And even on the hottest days, the press box is ventilated by a modest fan.
Ms. Palmer is one of music's most productive users of social media, galvanizing a modest fan base — her last album sold only 36,000 copies, and she tours small clubs and theaters — through constant interaction that blurs the usual line between performer and audience.
Add those 13,400 to the 21,500 who turned out to watch Leicester rediscover a bit of form on Friday night and competition in the Midlands is going to be hard for a side which is leaving its already modest fan base two hours to the south.
In recent days the Devils' modest fan base had been brought up by the Avalanche.
Where these throwback styles thrive is on the Internet, where dedicated if modest fan bases can champion all sorts of outsiders, even traditionalists.
The Rangers seem to fall somewhere between a large-market team whose financial model depends on big TV contracts, reliable ticket sales and lucrative sponsorship deals, and a small-market one that relies on the league's mandatory revenue-sharing to supplement the income provided by its more modest fan base.
Mr. Simmons shared his video with his more modest fan base (about 7,300 on Twitter and 11,400 on Facebook), but the video also benefited from appearing first on the popular Web site Mashable, which was given advance notice by the airline's United States public relations and marketing firm, the Los Angeles office of CRT/tanaka.
A modest 7,595 fans watched the Jets avoid taking over the defunct New Zealand Knights for the competition's longest goal drought when maligned striker Milos Trifunovic converted a first half penalty.
Their interests, which vary wildly from record to record, have won them a modest but loyal fan base.
That minuscule number shrank even further with the announcement on Monday by the ABC Family network that it was canceling "Bunheads," its comedy-drama series about aspiring young dancers and their unconventional mentor, after only one season, during which the series had developed a modest but passionate fan base.
