The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-09-25
AMERICAN
GREAT ATTENDANCE AT
THE WORLD SERIES GAMES
Isn't Likely this Year will See New
Record Established


ly that any new records for world |
series attendance of receipts will be
established this year. Should the
Giants win the National League pen
nant and fight 1T out with the Ath-
letics for the highest honors in base
ball, the series would not draw as
well as in other years. There would |
be no new thrills, no new faces, and
no great interest
Should the Braves win and play
against the Athletics interest in the !
series would be intense. Both parks
would be packed to the limit, but the
seating capacity in Boston would be /
considerably less than in New York. |
The largest crowd that ever was
seated III Philadelphia was for the
first game Of the 1910 world series, |
when the Cubs met the Athletics.
The attendance was 26,S91. Should
the Cubs win they would use FEM
way Park, the home of the American
Leaguers, which has a greater seat
ing capacity than the Braves park.
The biggest crowd ever seated in
Fenway Park was 1868, for the
fourth world series game played in
1912, between the Giants and the
Red Sox
On Labor Day this year the Giants
and Braves played to $4,000 in the
morning game and about 10000 in
the afternoon, but that included
fans who stood on the field. World
series rules bar spectators from the
field.
The greatest crowd that ever saw
world series game was in New
York on October IA, 1911, when 49,
PSI fans paid $77,35 to see the first
game between the Giants and Ath-
letics The smallest crowd that ever
witnessed world series combat
turned out in Chicago for the fifth
and deciding game between the
White Sox and the Cubs on October
Il, 1908. Only 6,21O fans paid adj
mission. The receipts were $9,577.
The record attendance and the rec
ord receipts for world series we're
established in 1912 when the Giants
and the Red Sox played eight games
before the Red Sox finally annexed
} the championship The receipts for
, the eight games totaled $3.50, 449,
! contributed by PSI, 9O1 fans.
The smallest crowd that ever saw
world series was in 1908 during
the Cubs-Tigers BATTLES. Only 3d.
232 fans turned out, for the five
games. They contributed $94, 975.
This figure is not the lowest record,
/ however, as the first world series
battles in 1903 between Pittsburg
and Boston drew only a trifie over
$50, 900. However, in those days the
: standard high prices which prevail
now for world series receipts were
not in vogue.
Here is table showing the totai
attendance and the total receipts fol
world series since the series became
a feature of modern baseball:
1903, Pittsburgh Boston, attend
ance 100, 429, receipts $4,000, eigh
games.
1904, no series.
1905, New York+Philadelphia, at
tendance 91,723, receipts $6S,495
= eight games.
le 1906, White Sox1Cubs, attendant
IS SO, S25, receipts $106, $50, six games
a 1907, Chicago-Detroit, attendant
h, rs, O6S, receipts $1O1,728.5O, fiv
IS games.
III 1908, Chicago-Detroit. attendant
81 50, 232. receipts $94, 1850, fv
er games.
- 1909, Pittsburg-Detroit, attend
ur ance 1925, receipts $188,3O2.5
lr seven games.
,e. 1910, Chicago, a
~ tendance 124, 222, receipts $173, 50
tie five games.
on 1911, New York-PhiladeIphia a
n. tendance 179, 851, receipts $342, 164
tic, so, six games.
ne 1912, New York-Boston, atten
is ance 251,901, receipts $489,44
~, po eight games.
ase 1918, New York-Philadelphia {
'ou tendance $50, 1872, receipts 1925, SO
. five games.
1t will be seen by the above re
ords that while the smallest atten
ance was in 1908 during the Oh
Ia ago-Deroit series, the smallest ]
ceipts were in 1905 when the Giar