It is impossible to find definitive information on exactly what constitutes a sold out baseball game. Nothing I’ve found so far distinguishes among regular seating, standing room, or luxury seating. Capacity seating is listed as 57,545, yet games are called sold-out with a mere 54 thousand and change in attendance. So your guess is as good as mine at this point. I even looked at the MLB rules site. There must be someone who knows this. Pete?????

The best I can find is individual articles citing a “sell-out crowd” at Yankee Stadium, and then giving a number anywhere from 54,000 up. I didn’t look into post-season numbers, just regular season. Last season, they had several games of 55,000-plus.

I even tried typing in the question: What is a sell-out crowd at Yankee Stadium? and got no help!

I’m thinking that if the investment banking firms (ahem) can no longer afford to buy the luxury boxes for a season, then there will probably be a plan B, C, D and E for not losing money on those seats. Unless the Yankees turn into a N/C team (perish the thought), I can’t imagine things getting that bad.

Last year’s 2 playoff games has totals of 56,358 and 56,315 though. So I don’t believe that had 1200 extra seats available.

http://www.baseball-reference......tend.shtml

2008 Yankees — So far I could not find definitive actual sell-out number.

Re: Luxury Boxes, I don’t believe that a company has to buy for all games during the season. There probably are different plans available just like Season tix.