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    CHANGE WORTH WAITING FOR

    Feb 02, 2022 4 minutes

    J.J. COOPER

    @JJCOOP36

    Ask a minor league general manager when his team’s attendance really picks up and the standard answer is somewhere right around Memorial Day. Summer is just around the corner. The weather is often excellent, no matter where you are. Kids are getting out of school.

    When the 2021 minor league season was delayed, many team operators noted the good news was they were losing the April dates that typically were not attendance boons.

    The numbers bear that out. Year after year across the minor leagues, teams have drawn on average 15-20% more fans from May 15 on than they do in

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