Record night in Evansville

The Evansville Otters set the record for largest attendance in Bosse Field's 97-year history Saturday night when 8,120 showed up on Breast Cancer Awareness Night to see the Otters' 8-7 victory over the Gateway Grizzlies.

Until somebody proves otherwise, I'm going with this also being the Frontier League single-game attendance record.

UPDATE: Received an email from Frontier League deputy commissioner Steve Tahsler concerning the attendance in Evansville.

Steve said the Frontier League's single-game attendance record is 10,250 for a game in Johnstown on July 4, 2000. The game was preceeded by a concert performed by the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra and followed by fireworks.

The league's six games on Sept. 5, 2010 set the one-day attendance record of 30,854. Traverse City drew 8,211 that day.

Record night

The Evansville Otters set a team attendance record Thursday on Fireworks Night as the River City Rascals beat the Otters, 3-1. A crowd of 7,782 showed up at historic Bosse Field (pictured, but the photo is not from last night). This was the largest crowd for an Otters game, and with Bosse being the largest ballpark in the league, I'm assuming this was the biggest crowd to watch a Frontier League game.

Rockford also had a big gate Thursday as attendance at Road Ranger Stadium was 5,677 for the RiverHawks' 6-2 win over Gateway.

The largest crowd for a game in Wild Things history is 6,820, also at Bosse Field, July 24, 2004. The largest crowd at Consol Energy Park - and this is a record that is unlikely to be broken because was simply too many people in the ballpark that night - was 4,247 for a game against Florence Aug. 23, 2003.

Rockford also had a big gate Thursday, as the attendance at Road Ranger Stadium was 5,677 for the RiverHawks' 6-2 win over Gateway.