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WBC attendance?
Does anyone know the WBC attendance for this year for all the venues?

Here is one from the last WBC [Sports Business Daily].

Thanks in advance.
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Re: WBC Attendance?
[ Author: NipponHam11 | Posted: Mar 10, 2009 11:59 AM | SFT Fan ]

I do know that the Korea-Japan game was a sellout at Tokyo Dome. Usually, for the games that have their home teams playing, they sell out. Anybody else, and it's only pockets of fans.
Re: WBC attendance?
[ Author: Guest: Michael Dominguez | Posted: Mar 17, 2009 1:12 PM ]

I was at all of the games in Toronto. The Canada / USA game had an attendance of over 42,000. However, the rest of the five games had attendance of 12,000 - 20,000. A large number of Venezuelans came to Toronto, as did some Americans.
Re: WBC attendance?
[ Author: No.1BayFan | Posted: Mar 18, 2009 8:31 AM | YOK Fan ]

The official box scores on the WBC website have the attendance for each game at the bottom of the results.
Re: WBC Attendance?
[ Author: heavesrock | Posted: Mar 27, 2009 1:08 PM ]

Some figures from the IBAF:

The Final between Japan and Korea on March 23 drew 54,846 fans, the largest crowd in World Baseball Classic history.

A total of 141,854 fans attended the three games in Los Angeles over Championship weekend; 43,630 fans attended the Japan vs. United States Semi-Final on March 22, the second largest-crowd in World Baseball Classic history.

ESPN's telecasts of this year's semifinals (Korea vs. Venezuela Saturday, March 21, and USA vs. Japan Sunday, March 22) and final (Korea vs. Japan, Monday, March 23) averaged 1,820,000 viewers (up 24 percent) and a 1.4 rating (up eight percent).

In Japan, the Final earned a 36.4 rating despite starting at 10:30 AM on Tuesday morning.

Sunday night’s telecast of Japan vs. USA on ESPN was the most-watched World Baseball Classic telecast in U.S. history by posting a 2.2 rating. The 2.2 rating of Japan vs. USA more than doubled the 1.0 rating both semifinals produced in 2006.

Japan vs. USA was the most watched sports event on North American cable television last week.

More than 15,000 fans watched the Final from Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul, South Korea.
Re: WBC Attendance?
[ Author: Guest: Pat | Posted: Mar 27, 2009 11:44 PM ]

"...the most-watched World Baseball Classic telecast in U.S. history..."

Which isn't really saying much considering there have been only two Classic series held in U.S. history.
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