SOUTH BEND – At 9 a.m. Eastern Standard Time August 5th, the South Bend Cubs were 300 tickets away from setting a new record for regular season attendance. By 7:05 p.m., when the first pitch had been thrown, the new historic record of 259,530 fans for a single season of professional baseball in South Bend had been established.

“Amazing. Just amazing,” said Joe Hart, President of the South Bend Cubs. “Everyone on the team is thrilled that fans love it here so much. It’s hard to believe that we still have 16 home games to go.”

The South Bend team broke its own record for a single season, which was set in the final game of the 2014 season at 258,836 fans. 2014 attendance was the highest to that point in over 20 years. Before that, the previous record had been set by the 1994 team.

“When you think about it, South Bend is going to set 16 new attendance records for the next 16 consecutive home games,” Hart said. “Every time we play from this point forward, we’ll be setting a new attendance record. That’s just a great feeling. And we owe it all to the amazing fans throughout the region. They love the Cubs. They love the South Bend Cubs. And now, our next milestone is that 300,000-fan attendance level, so we’re asking everyone to help us set the highest record possible.”