Cubs’ attendance declines for 5th straight year, lowest since 1998
BY GORDON WITTENMYER Staff Reporter September 25, 2013 5:54PM
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The Cubs suffered their fifth consecutive year of declining attendance, from a team-record 3,300,200 in 2008 to 2,642,682 this year – a 19.9-percent overall drop since the Cubs’ last playoff appearance.
The 240,074 drop from last season is the steepest from one full season to the next since the 1994-95 labor stoppage drove away fans nationwide – and represents more than $17 million lost in gross revenue based on internal estimates of per-fan spending, according to sources.
Cubs attendance declined by 434,653 from the 1993 season to ’96. The Cubs’ 2013 attendance is team’s lowest home total since 1998 (2,623,194).
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