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Show Sacramento Best City for Baseball Playing Sacramento was the best baseball city In the United States last season. This Is a sweeping statement, but statistics sta-tistics such as are available hear it out. Sacramento, In 15 home series, during dur-ing the 11)28 season, drew 2:!7,()()0 persons. per-sons. That is pretty near three times the population of Sacramento, which has been adjudged to he in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of 1)0,000. The Chicago Cubs outdrew the National Na-tional league last season, and it was reported that they played to over a million persons. Thai is about one-third one-third of the population of the Windy city. The New York Yankees played to about a million during their home games, which Is about one-eighth of their population. But Sacramento, a city of 00,000. drew 2:17.000 in as near as what we can figure amounted to 97 games. San Francisco outdrew the Pacific Coast league cities, 414,000 paying to see the games at Recreation park while the Seals were at home, and 2"i0,000 turning out to pay homage to the Missions, making a total of 004,-000 004,-000 for the season. |