The fans organized large in-game protests and collected thousands of signatures on a petition.
It is still possible to roam where Willie Mays roamed as a teenage center fielder because some local baseball fans organized in 1992 to become the Friends of Rickwood.
DON'T PANIC: When Douglas Adams, the author of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," died of a heart attack 11 years ago this month, a group of fans organized an impromptu "Towel Day" celebration in his memory.
Impromptu vigils broke out around the world, from Portland, Ore., where fans organized a one-gloved bike ride ("glittery costumes strongly encouraged") to Hong Kong, where fans gathered with candles and sang his songs.
That frustration boiled up in a protest last May, when more than 5,200 fans, organized by Kevin Kietzman, a sports talk-show host, walked out of a Royals-Yankees game in a noisy protest.
When Chicago finished the work, with help from a community of women, and some men, five years after beginning it, enthusiastic fans organized dinner parties for real women in its honor.
Her gay fans organized a "gay day" at Dollywood in the mid-2000s, modeled after a popular annual event at Disney World in which gays and lesbians would show up at the park in red shirts.
Three English cities off the beaten tour track were offered the chance for a show, but once fans organized in one of them, Folkestone — one sent 2,000 e-mails to friends to get them to pony up — their bids exploded, besting those poor Hot Chip enthusiasts in Stoke-on-Trent and York.
In a global poll of football fans, organized by anti-corruption NGO Transparency International, 69% said that they had lost confidence in football's governing body.
When chances of renewal for a Season 2 looked grim, fans organized a campaign.
