In the year 2015, the New York Yankees saw their lowest total attendance in 15 years. According to Baseball reference, the New York Yankees had a total attendance of 3,193,757 in 2015 compared to the 3,401,586 total attendance in 2014. 207,829 shy of the 2014 attendance. That means the New York Yankees lost in average 2,566 attendees per game at Yankee Stadium, the sixth worst drop off in the league. With that in mind, Yankee Stadium had an average attendance of 39,430 fans per game, the team has never had an attendance lower than 40,000 since 2000. On the other hand, across baseball the attendance went up from the 2014 to 2015 baseball season. The 2014 baseball's total attendance was 73,597,799 and it increased to 73,760,020 in 2015- a 162,221 increase. Although that is not a huge jump, there is an increase. So why did the New York Yankees, one of the most famous teams around the world, have such a drop off? Furthermore, 2013 to 2014, Yankee stadium attendance did rise up even when the Yankees lost more games in the 2014 campaign compared to the 2013 …show more content…
Many fans around baseball wanted to go see many of Jeter's "lasts". He has played for New York for 20 years and for mostly everyone, Jeter is an icon and a legend. He was for about two decades the face of baseball. So after his departure and other Yankee greats before him, such as Mariano Rivera, Andy Pettitte and Jorge Posada there were not many well known faces to the Yankees fan. Sure Alex Rodriguez returned in 2015 after his year long suspension, but, it wasn’t the same feel when having a heavy fan favorite and Hall of Famer right in front of you every night at Yankee Stadium like Derek Jeter. In 2014, Jeter owned the second-highest "Q-Rating" score among Pro-athletes, second to only Peyton Manning. "Q- Rating" score measures how well-known (and liked) a public figure is among the United