Here’s an article that breaks down baseball attendance over the years, and it may surprise you kids but the Mets owned this town a few times over the years.
Not for one moment would I pretend that an enormous number of “fans†that attended Shea from 1985-1992 bothered returning until the late 1990’s. We can all agree that success breeds attendance. The point is rather a questioning of the undying loyalty that is preached in New York and around the country from the vast majority of Yankees “fansâ€. Had the Yankee fan base truly been comprised of die-hards, the 1985-1992 attendance swoon would have never happened.
Read more in The Truth About Yankees Fans.
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