Find Out Where Atlanta Ranks Among America's Top Baseball Cities

ATLANTA, GA — With the 2018 World Series in full gear and tickets to see the games live costing hundreds to hundreds of thousands of dollars, the personal-finance website WalletHub recently released its report on Best Baseball Cities as well as accompanying videos to go along with its World Series Facts – Red Sox vs. Dodgers infographic.

To determine the best places to be a fan of America’s third most followed sport, WalletHub compared 360 U.S. cities with at least one college or professional baseball team across 31 key metrics. They range from performance level of team(s) to average ticket price to stadium accessibility.

Top 20 Baseball Cities

1. New York, NY
2. Los Angeles, CA
3. St. Louis, MO
4. Atlanta, GA
5. Chicago, IL
6. San Francisco, CA
7. Cincinnati, OH
8. Boston, MA
9. Pittsburgh, PA
10. Arlington, TX
11. Oakland, CA
12. Minneapolis, MN
13. Detroit, MI
14. St. Petersburg, FL
15. Baltimore, MD
16. Milwaukee, WI
17. Cleveland, OH
18. Philadelphia, PA
19. San Diego, CA
20. Kansas City, MO

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Best vs. Worst

• MLB: The Chicago Cubs have the best performance level, 60.21 percent, which is 1.5 times better than that of the Philadelphia Phillies and the Cincinnati Reds, the teams with the worst at 41.15 percent.
• MiLB: The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders have the best performance level, 60.29 percent, which is 1.7 times better than that of the Bristol Pirates, the team with the worst at 35.71 percent.
• NCAA: The Oregon State Beavers have the best performance level, 78.67 percent, which is 9.9 times better than that of the Saint Peters Peacocks, the team with the worst at 7.93 percent.
• Phoenix has the lowest average season ticket price (for MLB games), $19.65, which is 2.9 times less expensive than in Boston, the city with the highest at $56.97.

To view the full report and your city’s rank, visit: https://wallethub.com/edu/best-baseball-cities/12864/

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