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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Friday, April 16, 2021How Fernando drew thousands of extra fans
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Posted: April 16, 2021 at 09:26 AM | 26 comment(s)
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1. Howie Menckel Posted: April 16, 2021 at 11:58 AM (#6013784)My working assumption is no, due to higher average baseline attendance, greater media availability (mlb.tv), overall entertainment saturation, and deeper cultural cynicism. I'm curious if anyone disagrees.
Possible candidates?
Dizzy Dean?
Herb Score?
They were counting turnstiles back then, not total tickets sold.
If you're wondering why "A's rookie Vida Blue" didn't win Rookie of the Year along with Cy Young and MVP, it's because he wasn't a rookie. First full season, though.
When Feller came up, the Indians played most of their home games at League Park, playing at Municipal Stadium only on weekends and holidays. I'm guessing after awhile that the Tribe scheduled most of Feller's starts for the much larger Municipal Stadium -- Feller did negotiate for an attendance bonus clause in his contract.
1987: Pittsburgh home opener featured visiting starter Greg Mathews. Attendance was 52,119. The next Pirates home game attendance was 6,720.
In the 1987 home opener AND in the Gooden game you mentioned, the Pirates started Rick Reuschel. So either the attendance bump was due to the home opener, or Pirates fans loved them some Rick Reuschel. Maybe both. Regardless, it might have had nothing to do with Gooden.
But let's keep looking. In June 1986 Gooden pitched again in Pittsburgh, drawing nearly 30,000 fans on a Saturday. Here are the Saturday attendance numbers in Pittsburgh around that time:
May 24 : 18,631 (Bill Gullickson/Mike Bielecki)
May 31 : 15,709 (Rick Honeycutt/Bob Kipper)
June 7 : 29,770 (Dwight Gooden/Rick Reuschel)
June 28: 35,385 (Joe Hesketh/Rick Rueschel)
July 19: 8,559 (Ed Whitson/Bob Walk)
The Reuschel Theory seems to be holding stronger than I'd thought.
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