Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1913 — Baseball as a Business. [ARTICLE]

Baseball as a Business.

Thirty million is a minimum estimate of the fans who see baseball in a year’s time. There are 35 leagues In organized ball. All have from six to eight clubs. They average 130 games a season, with from 150,000 to 200,000 as a daily attendance. The New York Giants alone played to 750,000 last sear son; 250,000 saw the eight world's series games last year. One New York paper estimated that it sold 100,000 daily extras during the big series.