T-Bones to Break Season Attendance Record for Fifth Straight Year

The season attendance record one of many attendance records set in 2007

KANSAS CITY , Kan. – The T-Bones continue their trend of setting attendance records each year since the team's move to Kansas City in 2003.  The T-Bones are the only Kansas City professional sports team to do that.   Tonight the T-Bones will break their season attendance record of 269,205 set last season.  The T-Bones have drawn 267,898 fans in 2007 and still have three games remaining over the weekend.

The T-Bones are averaging 5,953 this season, 101 more fans per game than they were a season ago and 1,204 more than they did in 2003, the team's first year of existence.

The T-Bones have also set daily attendance records this year.  Kansas City set franchise records for Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday games.  A total of 6,412 fans passed through the gates on July 18 for the best Wednesday crowd in team history.   On August 16, the T-Bones welcomed 6,714 fans for the largest Thursday crowd ever.  The T-Bones drew 7,508 fans Friday, August 17, for a new Friday record.   The T-Bones saw their biggest crowd in the team's five-year existence on Saturday, June 23 when 10,345 fans came to watch the T-Bones play the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks.   That broke the previous record of 9,013 set in 2005.

The T-Bones will host the Gary SouthShore RailCats for the final three games of the regular season this weekend.   Friday and Saturday nights are 7:05 starts, with a 1:05 start on Sunday.

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