Major League Baseball issued a press release a few minutes ago touting attendance numbers, and there was much to tout.
Overall attendance is up 8.1% over last year, and last year was among the biggest years for attendance all time. The last eight years have been the highest eight-year stretch for attendance in baseball history.
Interleague play is certainly helping drive this, as this year’s slate posted the third highest attendance totals since the advent of the beast, and represented a 15.8% increase over intraleague games. Usually it draws around 12% more than intraleague games.
Reasons for all of this? Probably a combination. A ton of teams are still very much in contention, particularly some teams who have not been in recent years like the Nationals, Orioles and Pirates. The new park in Miami. Great weather all season long.
For baseball, it’s all good.
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