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Originally Posted by RedDread
Wow, wonder what the lowest attendance for a MLB game is all time. To Google!
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Ever gone to a sporting event and wondered how the team could survive with so little fans in the stands? Even when this thought crosses your mind, there are usually at least a couple thousand people there. Imagine going to a game and seeing only a few hundred!
How could this happen? In 2011, The Florida Marlins played the Cincinnati Reds and broke the record for the least amount of people at an MLB game. The previous record had been set in 1979 at an Oakland Athletics game with only 653 people. The reason only 347 people turned out was because of Hurricane Irene.
Many of those who had purchased tickets decided to flee the area and save their belongings from the potential damage than attend a sporting event. Justin Cohen, a fan at the game, counted five sections with only three or four people in them and three that were completely empty!
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This was years and years ago... but I remember being at a Royals game (against the Mariners? I think.) where a really bad storm blew through, tons of lightning, and it took 2-3 hours to resume the game. It was a weeknight and really cold after the storm, and by the time the game resumed at 11PM or so... there were literally 5-6 people in the upper deck, and half of them were my family.
There were probably a few hundred people in the lower deck though, but that's the best I've got. Although the more I think about it, maybe it was against the Marlins.