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Originally Posted by slic1149
Next time one argues that the players are not the attraction and the game is, I would be curious to know how much money one would pay to attend a game between Herb's Body Shop and Bill's Savings and Loan? MLB is a game of names and history.
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Again, real-world MLB from 1942-45. Plenty of names weren't a part of the game in those years, and plenty of replacements. It did hurt attendance (the nadir being 1943 when it was 23% down from the 1941 level) but it did start recovering.