Team History[edit]
The Dayton Dragons, of the Midwest League and briefly in High-A Central, began the longest sellout string in U.S. professional sports history in a city that hadn't had professional baseball for 50 years when they debuted in 2000. The Cincinnati Reds farmhands play their home games at Day Air Ballpark in Dayton, OH.
The Rockford Reds moved to Dayton from Rockford, IL, a season after new ownership dropped the Chicago Cubs for the Reds. MLB's 2021 Minor League Reorganization moved them, and most of the MwL, up one level. If the reported $40 million for the Dragons' 2014 sale is even close, the then-Low A club set a price record for all of minor league baseball.
The sell-out record when the streak began was 814 games, by the Portland Trail Blazers of the NBA, beaten by the Boston Red Sox who made it 820 straight sellouts from 2003 to 2013. As of the end of the 2019 season, the Dragons' streak had reached 1,135 games before being paused by the Coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and the ensuing restrictions on attending public events in 2021. The Dragons resumed the counting at the start of 2022, with the opener barely qualifying as a sellout.
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