Yet an MLB official cited the difficulties in getting attendance figures from "games way back when" for providing a definitive answer, though the official added: "We're not aware of any other instances".
They know that we're going to be a great attraction, we're going to spend time and energy and marketing getting attendance, and they're going to be the beneficiary of all that," he said.
"Frankly, being the seventh team into a market that is saturated means that difficulties [will arise]--I don't think so much with getting attendance at times, but television, which is increasingly important," Stern said.
"When I started, we got attendances of 500 – now we're getting 6,400 sell-outs, and next year we'll be playing Gothenburg and Malmö, who have been in the Champions League.
Our results support the findings of others ([ 10, 20, 42]) which point out that the majority of the interviewed women attend ANC to get antenatal attendance cards to facilitate prompt care in case of complications later in the pregnancy.
If our objective is to increase attendance for the game, then we know how much revenue we are giving up to get extra attendance.
But we get 97percentt attendance on Saturdays -- 248 smiling kids here bright and early; they are here because they love that day.
Now, we have more theaters, more conveniently located, more up-to-date and nicer to be in, so that would seem to indicate you'd get more attendance.
