Another reason not to root for the Yankees

September 25, 2009Jon Brooks Comments Off

baseballparkinglotCraig Robinson is an artist and illustrator and the creator of Flip Flop Flyball, a collection of brightly colored “infographics”—maps, pie charts, graphs, and other appealingly presented baseball data. His work-up of 2009 Major League Baseball ticket prices illustrates one reason why attendance is down 7% this year, with 21 of 30 teams experiencing a drop. A day at the stadium with the family is no inexpensive proposition. The $7 hot dogs are one thing, the $1,250 tickets are another. That’s the top price for the best seat in the house at Yankee Stadium. That’s right—don’t bother looking for the decimal in that figure. Even if that price included Derek Jeter personally cracking open your peanuts, kind of hard to imagine all those laid-off New York financial industry types laying down that kind of dough anymore.

Probably one reason that the Yankees, with the best record in baseball, have suffered the third-highest drop in attendance.

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