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Originally Posted by dalakhani
Hollywood Park isnt even in the same stratosphere as the old Yankee stadium in terms significance. The old Yankee stadium was still packing them in when they closed it.
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Nothing personal, but you must be a younger Fan, and perhaps a Yankees fan.
I'm neither.
Perhaps with Yankee blinkers on the place always was packed, but real world was that when the Yankees sucked in the 1960's and 1970's years, almost no one came to the park. See "bandwagon" and "fairweather." Even in New York.
In those seasons the Yankees drew an average of about 14,000 and change fans per game....over about a 15 season span.
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/teams/yankatte.shtml
I wouldn't pin historical significance much on attendance in all cases.