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Attendance is way down at Citizens Bank Park

    by Bob Vetrone Jr.
    Published 

The Phillies' average home attendance through six dates is 17,389 less than it was four years ago, Citizens Bank Park's high-water mark. That difference, as it is now, would be the sixth largest decline for a major league baseball club over a five-year period (or shorter) since divisional play began in1969.

But it would not be a Phillies record.

Five years after stunning the baseball world in 1993 with a World Series appearance, Phillies were down 20,334 people a game, a drop of 52.5%. (On the list below, only Tampa Bay had a higher percentage dropoff: 57.8%.)

 AVG. ATTENDANCE DECLINES OF 15,000 OR MORE
 OVER PERIOD OF 5 OR LESS YEARS (SINCE 1969)
 Team  Yrs.   First/Last  Diff.
 Mets

    5

  2008 (49,902)
 2012 (27,689)		  22,213  
 Indians

    4

  2000 (42,670)
 2003 (21,358)		  21,312
 Phillies

    5

  1993 (38,737)  
 1997 (18,403)		  20,334
 Blue Jays

    5

  1994 (49,287)
 1998 (30,300)		  18,987
 Rays

    5

  1998 (30,942)
 2002 (13,070)		  17,785
 Phillies

    5

  2011 (45,441)
 2015 (28,052)		  17,389
 Athletics

    5

  1991 (33,500)
 1995 (16,310)		  17,190
 Marlins

    4
  		  1993 (37,838)
 1996 (21,565)		  16,273
 Mets

    5

  1988 (38,193)
 1992 (21,970)		  16,223
 Twins

    4

  1992 (30,647)
 1995 (14,690)		  15,957
 Twins

    3

  1988 (37,416)
 1990 (21,624)		  15,792
 Reds

    5

  1978 (31,656)
 1982 (16,377)		  15,279
 White Sox   
 		    5

  1994 (32,026)
 1998 (16,965)		  15,061
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    Bob Vetrone Jr.
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