ST. LOUIS – The St. Louis Cardinals are a historic franchise. Their 11 world series championships, the most by a National League team, are second only to the New York Yankees in Major League Baseball.
But on Monday, the Cardinals made the wrong kind of history. The team announced they’d reached a new record-low in attendance, falling below 20,000 single-game tickets sold for the first time in Busch Stadium III’s history, not counting pandemic-restricted games.
When the final ticket was counted, the Cardinals’ attendance for Monday’s series opener against the Pittsburgh Pirates was 17,675.
Some of the fans who showed up ahead of Tuesday night’s game at the ballpark talked to FOX 2 about the recent sea of empty seats, what they viewed as the driving reasons behind the drop in attendance, and also shared their message for their fellow Cardinals fans and the teams ownership.