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2015 MLB Attendance Analysis now available


For years, I’ve relied on the statistical expertise of the brilliant David Kronheim. He is an absolute wizard with numbers and analysis, and luckily for baseball fans, he loves the National Pastime. Therefore, I greatly anticipate the arrival each spring of his detailed analysis of the previous year’s MLB attendance results. Done through David’s firm called Number Tamer, the report for 2015 just became available.

Whenever I’ve written an article where attendance figures are involved, I’ve turned to his analysis to shed a brilliant spotlight on the subject. Time and time again, his assessments have provided my pieces with great insight.

And his annual reports are anything but a dull recitation of how many fans attended a team’s games the previous year. Read More

Zika nixes Puerto Rico games


The Marlins and Pirates were scheduled to play two games at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico on May 30 and 31. Not any more. After the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) consulted with players from the two teams about the danger of contracting the Zika virus, the players union and MLB jointly announced Friday that the two games would be played at Marlins Park in Miami instead. Read More

Wow, everything looks different!


Welcome to the brand-new BaseballParks.com!  As our site was approaching its 20th year (and how many other websites can say that?), we felt that another set of renovations was in order.  We hired Altair Technology (the company that has expertly hosted our site since 2001) to change e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g about the format and look of the site.  And that’s exactly what they did.

I wanted the new look to emphasize two things … Read More

Happy Birthday to Sports Weekly


Twenty-five years ago this month, the first issue of Baseball Weekly hit newsstands across the country.  It was run by Gannett, who also published the highly successful USA TODAY. The execs at Gannett were huge baseball fans — and early fanatics of fantasy baseball — and they hated it when The Sporting News stopped including box scores in 1990.  So in April 1991, they launched a weekly magazine that is still going strong.  Despite a seven-month baseball strike in 1994, a name change to Sports Weekly in 2002, and a consolidation of the staff with USA TODAY Sports in 2006, the publication is still going strong.  Read More