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MLB.com Sets New Online Ticketing Mark for Eighth Straight Year

NEW YORK, July 22 /PRNewswire/ — MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM), the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball, announced today that it has established a new online ticketing record for the eighth consecutive year as, to date in 2008, 27.4 million tickets have been sold on behalf of the League's 30 clubs at MLB.com, the official website of Major League Baseball, and the individual club sites.

During its most recent record-setting season in 2007 when 27.1 million tickets were sold online, MLBAM had sold 21.5 million tickets as of this date. Compared to today's current total, tickets sold online at MLB.com have increased 27 percent over last year and did not reach the 27 million tickets sold mark until the postseason - October 12, 2007.

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