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Notable St. Louis Attendance Marks

(As of March 2010)

• St. Louis Blues:  Finished in top six in Western Conference total attendance during past two seasons averaging 18,082 fans per game.
• St. Louis Cardinals:  Have drawn at least 3 million fans 11 of the past 12 seasons.  In 2009, the Cardinals ranked third in the National League drawing 3,343,252 fans.
• St. Louis Rams:  Strung together 95 consecutive regular-season sellouts from the 1995 season through the 2006 season.         
• River City Rascals (minor league baseball): Averaged 101,670 fans the past three seasons. 
• Gateway Grizzlies (minor league baseball): Over 175,000 fans came through the turnstiles during the 2009 season.  
• 2009 All-Star FanFest:  Set all-time attendance record for Major League Baseball
  All-Star FanFest with a total of 150,804 – eclipsing the previous mark set in New York by 17 percent. 
• 2009 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships:  Set all-time total attendance record of 97,336. 
  St. Louis holds the top four attendance marks. 
• 2007 NCAA Frozen Four:  Set all-time attendance record of 19,432 for the Championship game. 
• 2005 Cory Spinks vs. Zab Judah World Welterweight Championship Fight:  Sold-out crowd of 22,730 was the most ever to see a boxing match at an indoor arena.
• 2004 U.S. Olympic Diving Trials:  Total attendance of 22,500 at the St. Peters
  Rec-Plex was an all-time record for the event.
• 2004 U.S. Senior Open:  Sold-out event drew 171,000 fans.
• 2002 NCAA Men's Basketball First/Second Rounds:  Ranked No. 1 all-time in net receipts for a sub-regional.  The three sessions drew 73,774 fans.
• 2001 NCAA Women's Final Four:  Sold out nearly a year ahead of the event.
• 2000 John Hancock U.S. Gymnastics Championships:  Set all-time record for U.S. Gymnastics Championships ticket sales.
• 1999 NCAA Men’s Basketball Midwest Regional:  Set NCAA Regional single-game attendance record of 42,519.
• 1994 U.S. Olympic Festival:  Labeled "the best Festival ever" by the United States Olympic Committee.  Holds records for total attendance (515,403) and involved nearly 15,000 volunteers.
• 1992 PGA Championship:  Regarded as one of the most successful ever.  The first of 74 PGA Championships to sell out. Drew 35,000 spectators per day.