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MLB attendance leaders 2008

Bill Sullivan — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:45:53 +0000

With the economy struggling and season ticket sales lagging for many Major League Baseball clubs, nervous owners and executives will be keeping an eye on the turnstiles this season, hoping recession-weary fans will still find enough cash to take themselves out to the ballgame.

Just a year ago, business was brisk. Two teams drew in excess of four million fans at home, while eight more topped the three million mark.

Who attracted the biggest home crowds last season? The answers probably won’t surprise. Here’s the list:

Rank	Team	Home Dates	Total Attendance	Average
1	New York Yankees	81	4,298,655	53,069
2	New York Mets	79	4,042,047	51,165
3	Los Angeles Dodgers	81	3,730,553	46,056
4	St. Louis Cardinals	81	3,430,660	42,353
5	Philadelphia Phillies	81	3,422,583	42,254
6	Los Angeles Angels	81	3,336,744	41,194
7	Chicago Cubs	81	3,300,200	40,743
8	Detroit Tigers	81	3,202,645	39,538
9	Milwaukee Brewers	81	3,068,458	37,882
10	Boston Red Sox	81	3,048,250	37,632
11	San Francisco Giants	81	2,863,837	35,356
13	Colorado Rockies	80	2,650,218	33,127
14	Atlanta Braves	81	2,532,834	31,269
15	Arizona Diamondbacks	81	2,509,924	30,986
16	Chicago White Sox	81	2,501,103	30,877
17	San Diego Padres	81	2,427,535	29,969
18	Toronto Blue Jays	81	2,399,786	29,626
19	Washington Nationals	80	2,320,400	29,005
20	Seattle Mariners	81	2,329,702	28,761
21	Minnesota Twins	81	2,302,431	28,425
22	Cleveland Indians	80	2,169,760	27,122
23	Cincinnati Reds	81	2,058,632	25,415
24	Baltimore Orioles	78	1,950,075	25,000
25	Texas Rangers	80	1,945,677	24,320
26	Tampa Bay Rays	80	1,780,791	22,259
27	Oakland Athletics	81	1,665,256	20,558
28	Pittsburgh Pirates	80	1,609,076	20,113
29	Kansas City Royals	79	1,578,922	19,986
30	Florida Marlins	80	1,335,075	16,688

Source: ESPN

NLCS All-Time Results

Bill Sullivan — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:53:57 +0000

Following the grind of the 162-game regular season, baseball’s relatively short postseason can produce some surprising results.

In 2007, the Colorado Rockies parlayed a red-hot September into a playoff spot, where they promptly rolled through the first two rounds before being swept by the Red Sox in the World Series. A year later, two of the teams favored to make it to the World Series — the Cubs and Angels — were dispatced in the first round, while the lesser regarded Phillies and Dodgers advanced to the National League Championship Series.

Here’s a list of the all-time NLCS winners:

(Best of 7 format)

2008: Philadelphia 4, Los Angeles 1
2007: Colorado 4, Arizona 0
2006: St. Louis 4, New York 3
2005: Houston 4, St. Louis 2
2004: St. Louis 4, Houston 3
2003: Florida 4, Chicago 3
2002: San Francisco 4, St. Louis 1
2001: Arizona 4, Atlanta 1
2000: New York 4, St. Louis 1
1999: Atlanta 4, New York 2
1998: San Diego 4, Atlanta 2
1997: Florida 4, Atlanta 2
1996: Atlanta 4, St. Louis 3
1995: Atlanta 4, Cincinnati 0
1994: Not Held
1993: Philadelphia 4, Atlanta 2
1992: Atlanta 4, Pittsburgh 3
1991: Atlanta 4, Pittsburgh 3
1990: Cincinnati 4, Pittsburgh 2
1989: San Francisco 4, Chicago 1
1988: Los Angeles 4, New York 3
1987: St. Louis 4, San Francisco 3
1986: New York 4, Houston 2
1985: St. Louis 4, Los Angeles 2

(Best of 5 format)

1984: San Diego 3, Chicago 2
1983: Philadelphia 3, Los Angeles 1
1982: St. Louis 3, Atlanta 0
1981: Los Angeles 3, Montreal 2
1980: Philadelphia 3, Houston 2
1979: Pittsburgh 3, Cincinnati 0
1978: Los Angeles 3, Philadelphia 1
1977: Los Angeles 3, Philadelphia 1
1976: Cincinnati 3, Philadelphia 0
1975: Cincinnati 3, Pittsburgh 0
1974: Los Angeles 3, Pittsburgh 1
1973: New York 3, Cincinnati 2
1972: Cincinnati 3, Pittsburgh 2
1971: Pittsburgh 3, San Francisco 1
1970: Cincinnati 3, Pittsburgh 0
1969: New York 3, Atlanta 0

Source: MLB.com

Sports’ Worst Losing Streaks

Bill Sullivan — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:56:21 +0000

With a promising season ending in all-too-familiar defeat, the Chicago Cubs spend another winter pondering the might-have-beens. Swept out of the National League Division Series by the lightly-regarded Los Angeles Dodgers, the Cubs will go yet another year without claiming their first World Series title since 1908.

The denizens of Wrigleyville, however, are hardly alone in their misery. Plenty of other sports franchises and their faithful fans have endured impressive runs of futility.

Forbes set out to identify the big losers — lovable and otherwise — of the jock kingdom. Here’s part of what they came up with:

– Los Angeles Clippers: 12 consecutive losing seasons (1993-2005)

– Golden State Warriors: 12 consecutive losing seasons (1994-2006)

– Detroit Tigers: 12 consecutive losing seasons (1994-2005)

– Milwaukee Brewers: 12 consecutive losing seasons (1993-2004)

– Chicago Blackhawks: 14 consecutive losing seasons (1946-60)

– Detroit Red Wings: 14 consecutive losing seasons (1973-87)

– Detroit-Fort Wayne Pistons: 14 consecutive losing seasons (1956-70)

– Tampa Bay Buccaneers: 14 consecutive losing seasons (1983-96)

– Philadelphia-Kansas City Athletics: 15 consecutive losing seasons (1953-67)

– Vancouver Canucks: 15 consecutive losing seasons (1976-91)

– Sacramento Kings: 15 consecutive losing seasons (1983-98)

– Philadelphia Phillies: 16 consecutive losing seasons (1933-48)

– Pittsburgh Pirates: 16 consecutive losing seasons (1993-2008)

To read about these epic losers, and to see a slideshow, visit Forbes.com.