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Total Yearly MLB Attendance 1901 to Present

Ticket & Attendance Watch

Written by Maury Brown

Monday, 15 March 2010 21:23

The following is yearly attendance data for Major League Baseball from 1901 based upon MLB's Red and Green Books. The table below will be updated at the end of each season to reflect.

Year	AL	NL	ML Total	% (+/-)
1901	1,683,584	1,920,031	3,603,615
1902	2,206,454	1,683,012	3,889,466	7.9%
1903	2,344,888	2,390,362	4,735,250	21.7%
1904	3,024,028	2,664,271	5,688,299	20.1%
1905	3,120,752	2,734,310	5,855,062	2.9%
1906	2,938,076	2,781,213	5,719,289	-2.3%
1907	3,398,764	2,640,220	6,038,984	5.6%
1908	3,611,366	3,512,108	7,123,474	18.0%
1909	3,739,570	3,496,420	7,235,990	1.6%
1910	3,270,689	3,494,544	6,765,233	-6.5%
1911	3,339,514	3,231,768	6,571,282	-2.9%
1912	3,263,631	2,735,759	5,999,390	-8.7%
1913	3,526,805	2,831,531	6,358,336	6.0%
1914	2,747,591	1,707,397	4,454,988	-29.9%
1915	2,434,684	2,430,142	4,864,826	9.2%
1916	3,451,885	3,051,634	6,503,519	33.7%
1917	2,858,858	2,361,136	5,219,994	-19.7%
1918	1,707,999	1,372,127	3,080,126	-41.0%
1919	3,654,236	2,878,203	6,532,439	112.1%
1920	5,084,300	4,036,575	9,120,875	39.6%
1921	4,620,328	3,986,984	8,607,312	-5.6%
1922	4,874,355	3,941,820	8,816,175	2.4%
1923	4,602,589	4,069,817	8,672,406	-1.6%
1924	5,255,439	4,340,644	9,596,083	10.7%
1925	5,186,851	4,353,704	9,540,555	-0.6%
1926	4,912,583	4,920,399	9,832,982	3.1%
1927	4,612,951	5,309,917	9,922,868	0.9%
1928	4,221,188	4,881,097	9,102,285	-8.3%
1929	4,662,470	4,925,713	9,588,183	5.3%
1930	4,685,730	5,446,532	10,132,262	5.7%
1931	3,883,292	4,583,815	8,467,107	-16.4%
1932	3,133,232	3,841,334	6,974,566	-17.6%
1933	2,926,210	3,162,821	6,089,031	-12.7%
1934	2,763,606	3,200,105	5,963,711	-2.1%
1935	3,688,007	3,657,309	7,345,316	23.2%
1936	4,178,922	3,903,691	8,082,613	10.0%
1937	4,735,835	4,204,228	8,940,063	10.6%
1938	4,445,684	4,560,837	9,006,521	0.7%
1939	4,270,602	4,707,177	8,977,779	-0.3%
1940	5,433,791	4,389,693	9,823,484	9.4%
1941	4,911,956	4,777,647	9,689,603	-1.4%
1942	4,200,216	4,353,353	8,553,569	-11.7%
1943	3,696,559	3,769,342	7,465,901	-12.7%
1944	4,798,158	3,974,588	8,772,746	17.5%
1945	5,580,420	5,260,703	10,841,123	23.6%
1946	9,621,182	8,902,107	18,523,289	70.9%
1947	9,486,069	10,388,470	19,874,539	7.3%
1948	11,150,099	9,770,743	20,920,842	5.3%
1949	10,730,647	9,484,718	20,215,365	-3.4%
1950	9,142,361	8,320,616	17,462,977	-13.6%
1951	8,882,674	7,244,002	16,126,676	-7.7%
1952	8,293,896	6,339,148	14,633,044	-9.3%
1953	6,964,076	7,419,721	14,383,797	-1.7%
1954	7,922,364	8,013,519	15,935,883	10.8%
1955	8,942,971	7,674,412	16,617,383	4.3%
1956	7,893,683	8,994,525	16,888,208	1.6%
1957	8,196,218	8,819,601	17,015,819	0.8%
1958	7,296,034	10,164,596	17,460,630	2.6%
1959	9,149,454	9,994,525	19,143,979	9.6%
1960	9,226,526	10,684,963	19,911,489	4.0%
1961	10,163,016	8,731,502	18,894,518	-5.1%
1962	10,015,056	11,360,159	21,375,215	13.1%
1963	9,094,487	11,382,227	20,476,714	-4.2%
1964	9,235,151	12,045,190	21,280,341	3.9%
1965	8,860,764	13,581,136	22,441,900	5.5%
1966	10,166,738	15,051,471	25,218,209	12.4%
1967	11,336,923	12,971,430	24,308,353	-3.6%
1968	11,317,387	11,758,358	23,075,745	-5.1%
1969	12,134,745	15,094,946	27,229,691	18.0%
1970	12,085,135	16,662,198	28,747,333	5.6%
1971	11,868,560	17,324,857	29,193,417	1.6%
1972	11,438,538	15,529,730	26,968,268	-7.6%
1973	13,433,604	16,675,322	30,108,926	11.6%
1974	13,047,294	16,978,314	30,025,608	-0.3%
1975	13,189,423	16,600,490	29,789,913	-0.8%
1976	14,657,802	16,660,529	31,318,331	5.1%
1977	19,639,551	19,070,228	38,709,779	23.6%
1978	20,529,965	20,106,921	40,636,886	5.0%
1979	22,371,979	21,178,419	43,550,398	7.2%
1980	21,890,052	21,124,084	43,014,136	-1.2%
1981	14,065,986	12,478,390	26,544,376	-38.3%
1982	23,080,449	21,507,425	44,587,874	68.0%
1983	23,991,053	21,549,285	45,540,338	2.1%
1984	23,961,427	20,781,436	44,742,863	-1.8%
1985	24,532,225	22,292,154	46,824,379	4.7%
1986	25,172,732	22,333,471	47,506,203	1.5%
1987	27,277,351	24,734,155	52,011,506	9.5%
1988	28,499,636	24,499,268	52,998,904	1.9%
1989	29,849,262	25,323,834	55,173,096	4.1%
1990	30,332,260	24,491,508	54,823,768	-0.6%
1991	32,117,588	24,696,172	56,813,760	3.6%
1992	31,759,501	24,112,770	55,872,271	-1.7%
1993	33,332,603	36,923,856	70,256,459	25.7%
1994	24,202,197	25,807,819	50,010,016	-28.8%
1995	25,358,988	25,110,248	50,469,236	0.9%
1996	29,718,093	30,379,288	60,097,381	19.1%
1997	31,283,321	31,885,368	63,168,689	5.1%
1998	31,947,900	38,424,321	70,372,221	11.4%
1999	31,816,532	38,322,848	70,139,380	-0.3%
2000	32,897,543	39,737,552	72,635,095	3.6%
2001	32,709,153	39,558,391	72,267,544	-0.5%
2002	30,910,469	36,948,707	67,859,176	-6.1%
2003	30,907,838	36,660,559	67,568,397	-0.4%
2004	32,801,668	40,221,301	73,022,969	8.1%
2005	33,282,189	41,419,845	74,702,034	2.3%
2006	34,464,169	41,578,618	76,042,787	1.8%
2007	35,389,658	44,113,517	79,503,175	4.6%
2008	34,503,077	44,084,927	78,588,004	-1.2%
2009	32,239,466	41,128,193	73,367,659	-6.6%
2010	32,163,931	40,404,849	72,568,780	-1.1%
2011	32,674,506	40,740,853	73,415,359	1.2%
TOTALS	1,488,305,843	1,586,830,138	3,075,135,981
Year	AL	NL	ML Total	% (+/-)

Source: Major League Baseball Red and Green Books

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