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Old 06-13-2014, 07:14 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by Tram2Whitaker View Post
So in effect, despite claims of hardship, MLB had to have at least doubled their revenues between 1990 and 1995.
The following data appeared in The New York Times on April 11, 1996, and may be of interest.

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Operating revenues, operating expenses, and operating profits (losses)
for the 26 major league baseball teams (28 teams beginning in 1993),
as obtained by The Associated Press from management financial statements.
Figures are rounded to the nearest thousand dollars after 1983, except
for 1994, which is rounded to the nearest million.

Year     Revenues       Expenses    Profit (Loss)
-------------------------------------------------
1975    162,598,094    166,312,851    (3,714,757)
1976    182,035,149    186,704,462    (4,669,313)
1977    233,285,111    236,155,850    (2,870,739)
1978    265,308,026    265,303,440         4,586
1979    301,750,111    302,363,300      (613,189)
1980    351,404,824    371,177,557   (19,772,733)
1981    279,148,414    384,533,669  (105,385,255)
1982    442,642,488    534,737,436   (92,094,948)
1983    521,656,909    588,260,780   (66,603,871)
1984    624,223,000    665,211,000   (40,988,000)
1985    717,813,000    724,896,000    (7,083,000)
1986    791,875,000    780,347,000    11,528,000
1987    910,877,000    809,933,000   100,944,000
1988  1,007,519,000    885,915,000   121,604,000
1989  1,241,059,000  1,026,550,000   214,509,000
1990  1,336,530,000  1,193,663,000   142,867,000
1991  1,537,395,000  1,438,442,000    98,953,000
1992  1,663,367,000  1,641,146,000    22,221,000
1993  1,865,561,000  1,829,479,000    36,082,000
1994  1,208,000,000  1,584,000,000  (376,000,000)
1995  1,354,556,000  1,680,107,000  (325,551,000)

Notes

1981 revenue does not include $46.8 million from strike insurance
1995 figures were preliminary estimates

Original article listed 1978 profit as (4,586). This was likely a typo and
is corrected in the above table.

Original article listed 1990 profit as (19,772,933). This was likely a typo
and is corrected in the above table.
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