Indians Sets Franchise Attendance Record
INDIANAPOLIS – With a standing room only crowd of 15,250 at its home finale on Aug. 30 – the largest crowd since Sept. 5, 2009 – the Indianapolis Indians established a new Victory Field record for single-season attendance. A total of 660,289 fans enjoyed Indianapolis Indians baseball in 2014.The previous record was 659,237 set in 1998.
After leading all of Minor League Baseball in attendance last season (637,579), and drawing the fifth-most fans in 2012 (595,043), the Tribe has welcomed nearly two million fans to Victory Field over the last three seasons, the most of any US-based Minor League Baseball team (1,892,911).
New franchise records within the overall attendance figure included an average attendance of 10,125 over the team’s last 53-of-72 games in the 14,230-seat ballpark, eight sellouts, and three games with more than 15,000 fans.
Corporate outings and other groups came to Victory Field in record numbers this season including one game that featured an outing of more than 5,000 guests.
In a year of attendance highlights, on Aug. 3 18-year-old Victory Field also welcomed its 11 millionth fan.