Best Fans in Baseball? The Cardinals’ Attendance is Sinking Like a STONE

Michael Cerami Michael Cerami
Aug 30, 2024
Aug 30, 2024

CARDINALS ATTENDANCE DROP — Are we (avid fans of the 2024 Chicago Cubs) in a position to throw stones at the moment? No, probably not. Even after a particularly hot month of August (16-8), the Cubs are just two games over .500 and behind two teams in the Wild Card race.

But am I (a petty Cubs fan) ever going to skip an opportunity to poke fun at the Cardinals or their self-ascribed “best fans in baseball” whenever I get the chance? NOOOOOOOPE.

Thus, I am pleased to report that the third-place 2024 Cardinals (67-67) are experiencing record-breaking attendance drops at Busch Stadium t🐈his year.

Cardinals Attendance Drop

A couple of days ago, that the five smallest announced crowds in the history of Busch Stadium III (excluding the🔴 pandemic years) all happened here at the end of August.

  1. August 27, 2024: 27,224
  2. August 22, 2024: 28,630
  3. August 26, 2024: 28,697
  4. August 21, 2024: 29,580
  5. August 20, 2024: 30,022
  6. September 5, 2012: 30,090
  7. August 23, 2012: 30,343
  8. June 14, 2022: 31,193
  9. May 6, 2024: 31,283
  10. July 31, 2024: 31,365

And guess what! The Cardinals attendance at Busch Stadium over their last two games since that article was published♔ made the (reverse) top 10!

  • August 28, 2024: 30,999
  • August 29, 2024: 26,553

    • That means that eigh🌸t of the 11th lowest *announced* attendance days in Busch Stadium III history happened this season, in the last month.

    But that’s not all. You may have noticed that I put a couple of asterisks around the word announced. And that’s because the actual estimated number of attendees “who came through the turnstiles” on August 27 fell below 13,000 ().

    Here are some vis𓂃uals and comments from those around the team🐲/stadium:

    Best fans in baseball?

    I THINK NOT!

    Cardinals attendance at Busch Stadium
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    Michael Cerami began covering the Chicago Cubs for Bleacher Nation as a par💞t-time contributor in 2015. One year later, he joined Bleacher Nation full-time, covering the Chicago Cubs and Major League Baseball. Today, Michael runs Bleacher Nation, contributing as a writer (Cubs, MLB) and an eജditor for all sections of the site, including the Chicago Bears, Bulls, and Blackhawks, as well as MLB, NBA, NHL, and NFL. In 2019, Michael was the co-host of NBC Sports Chicago's Cubs Post-Game Show You can find him on Twitter/X

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