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About those empty seats …

By Jayson Stark
ESPN.com

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Empty seats. The defining image of April was those empty seats in a ballpark near you. Or was it? Here at World Rumblings Headquarters, we've just finished a study on those empty seats. We totaled up this April's attendance numbers. Then we compared them to last April's attendance numbers. We bet you'll be shocked by what we found. Guess how much lower the average crowd at a major league baseball game was this April than it was last April. Go ahead. Just guess. Before we go on, we should te ...

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