# MLB and consecutive full ball parks **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 23, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-consecutive-full-ball-parks/718373 "2015-04-23T17:32:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-consecutive-full-ball-parks/718373/1 "2015-04-23T17:32:29Z")
Watching SF and LAD last night. The announcer mentioned that last night was the Giant’s 336 consecutive game with a full stadium. Is that a biggie? A record? And who is that announcer? He does a one man show, seems to be a Giant fan. Gives a lot of in depth information on players. ---
**Author:** ![FuriousGeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecae2f/32.png) [@FuriousGeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FuriousGeorge)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-consecutive-full-ball-parks/718373/2 "2015-04-23T17:40:25Z")
The Red Sox have the offical record at something like over 800 games… but that is padded like a middle school girl’s bra because they counted tickets that were simply given away regardless of how empty the park was on game day. Is Jon Miller still doing the Giant games? If it’s the Dodgers broadcast, it’s Vin Scully. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-consecutive-full-ball-parks/718373/3 "2015-04-23T18:10:24Z")
If I recall correctly, the definition of “sell out” has changed in the last few years, as well. Stadiums are allowed to provide their own definitions of what percentage of tickets sold constitutes a sell out, so while it’s still an impressive streak, it isn’t quite what it sounds like. And as **FuriousGeorge** noted, it was either Jon Miller (who is definitely still broadcasting) or Vin Scully, both of whom are fantastic. Vin Scully (the Dodger announcer) has been doing Dodger broadcasts for 65 years (that’s not a typo) and is known for his story-telling about the players. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-consecutive-full-ball-parks/718373/4 "2015-04-23T18:21:25Z")
The Giants’ streak is no better than 3rd best. The Indians had 455 consecutive sellouts from June 12, 1995, to April 4, 2001. Theirs was the record the Red Sox broke. The former might be a bit more impressive as Jacob’s Field (what it was then called) seats 43,345 while Fenway Park seats 37,673, and the Cleveland metro area is less than half the size of the Boston metro area at 2 and 4.5 million. The Giants do have the NL record. The Dayton (OH) Dragons in class A ball, who are affiliated with the Reds, have sold out every home game since they arrived there in 2000. They had 1051 consecutive sellouts as of the end of last season. The park seats 8200. So they’ve sold 8,618,200 consecutive tickets ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-consecutive-full-ball-parks/718373/5 "2015-04-23T18:26:57Z")
> [@harmonicamoon](#): > > Watching SF and LAD last night. The announcer mentioned that last night was the Giant’s 336 consecutive game with a full stadium. Is that a biggie? A record? Considering how hard it was to get a ticket to a Giants game in their first few seasons after they left Whatever Candlestick Park Is Called This Week, 336 doesn’t seem too high. If anything, I would say, “Is that all?”; the game before the start of the 336-game streak would have been, if I counted correctly, the 13th home game of the 2011 season, but why would the Giants not sell out early in the season following its first World Series title since moving from New York? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-consecutive-full-ball-parks/718373/6 "2015-04-23T19:13:06Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#): > > Whatever Candlestick Park Is Called This Week It was always Candlestick. Nobody paid \*me \*to call it anything else. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-consecutive-full-ball-parks/718373/7 "2015-04-23T20:05:18Z")
[This article](http://www.bizofbaseball.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5238:demystifying-when-a-sellout-isnt-a-sellout-and-ticket-selling-tricks-of-the-trade&catid=56:ticket-watch&Itemid=136) is from 2011, but discusses some of the details about sellouts. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-consecutive-full-ball-parks/718373/8 "2015-04-23T21:45:21Z")
> [@FuriousGeorge](#): > > The Red Sox have the offical record at something like over 800 games… but that is padded like a middle school girl’s bra because they counted tickets that were simply given away regardless of how empty the park was on game day. I seem to remember that at one point, American League teams counted the number of tickets sold, whereas National League teams reported the actual number of people who showed up to the game (i.e., how many buttocks in seats). The NL eventually started to follow the AL’s convention. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-consecutive-full-ball-parks/718373/9 "2015-04-23T22:05:23Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > …(i.e., how many buttocks in seats). Divided by two, I take it, lest they wind up with an inflated attendance figure. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-consecutive-full-ball-parks/718373/10 "2015-04-24T03:31:58Z")
Unless the occasional one-buttocked fan shows up one day. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-consecutive-full-ball-parks/718373/11 "2015-04-24T08:46:04Z")
The Giants’ TV announcers are Duane Kuiper for play-by-play and Mike Krukow for color. If you were watching the Giants’ broadcast it was probably Krukow who was the storyteller. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-consecutive-full-ball-parks/718373/12 "2015-04-24T12:36:13Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > Unless the occasional one-buttocked fan shows up one day. He might be counter-balanced by the [man with three buttocks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbN9doxZusQ). ---
**Author:** ![russian\_heel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2015, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-consecutive-full-ball-parks/718373/13 "2015-04-25T08:10:59Z")
Before the Giants the Phillies claimed the NL record with 257 straight sold out games, which some sources such as Deadspin say was questionable: [http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/blog/john-george/2012/08/phillies-sellout-streak-was-national.html](http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/blog/john-george/2012/08/phillies-sellout-streak-was-national.html)