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MLB breaks attendance record; Marlins still last

Major League Baseball announced Monday it had already broken an attendance record for the fourth straight year, with seven games in the regular season still remaining. The 30 teams had already drawn 76.2 million through last Sunday, up from the total 2006 attendance of 76 million.

The Marlins, who closed out the 2007 season completing a sweep of the Chicago Cubs at Dolphin Stadium Thursday afternoon, are still last in attendance, selling 1.37 million tickets or 16,920 per game. On the bright side, that’s up nearly 18 percent from last year’s 1.16 million or 14,372 per game.

That’s in spite of a losing record, but much of the increase can be attributed to the team’s Super Saturdays, which include giveaways, postgame concerts and fireworks.

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When the Marlins were winnig in June or July, there was talk about the water cooler.

The water cooler conversations continued with the Super Saturday concerts.
Hey,
it worked for Gulfstream Race track, though the rock concerts offended the gambling purists....

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SARAH TALALAY
After a decade as a news reporter in New Jersey, Southern California, Chicago and South Broward, Talalay decided to trade in covering meetings about city government and schools for meetings about sports deals and stadium finance...
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