Ticket Sales Tip and the Stars behind them- Week #17
(The midweek day game isn’t what it use to be)
Back in 2010, Jose Bautista became the first Blue Jay to hit 50 HRs in a season and he did in front of 7k fans during a Thursday matinee game. Regardless of being a diehard Jays fan who loved Joey Bats, I was only at the game b/c of a charity work related HR derby that followed.
Fast forward to ’23 in the post COVID world and the landscape has clearly changed. Since Opening Day (not included) Atlanta, Toronto, Baltimore, Chicago (WS and Cubs), Cincy, Colorado, Cleveland, Detroit, Houston, KC, Miami, Milwaukee, Minnesota, NY (Yankees and Mets), Oakland, Philly, Pittsburgh, San Fran, Seattle, St Louis, Tampa, Texas, Toronto and Washington have all hosted midweek series where the matinee game (school is still in session) was the highest attended date.