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The Dayton Dragons are a Class A minor league baseball team playing in the Midwest League based in Dayton, Ohio. The Dragons are affiliated with the Cincinnati Reds. Their home stadium is Fifth Third Field. In 2011, they broke the record for most consecutive sellouts by a professional sports team, selling out their 815th consecutive game, breaking the record formerly held by the Portland Trail Blazers. The Dragons came to Dayton in 2000. They were previously a franchise based in Rockford, Illinois, and were called the Rockford Expos (1988–1992), Rockford Royals (1993–1994), Rockford Cubbies (1995–1998), and Rockford Reds (1999). ==Fifth Third Field== The team's home park is Fifth Third Field in Dayton. During its first season the Dragons set a class A baseball attendance record of 581,853. Dayton broke that record in 2003 when 590,382 fans—ranking seventh in all of minor league baseball—went through the turnstiles, and again in 2004 with 593,663 paying fans. The Dragons average 8,375 fans per game, or 116% of capacity. The Dragons have been the top Class A team in attendance every year of their existence, and have set and re-broken the record for Class A attendance three times.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ten Hottest Tickets )〕 On April 17, 2007, the Dragons enjoyed their 500th consecutive sellout. On July 9, 2011, the Dragons officially set a new record of 815 consecutive sellout games.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://dayton.dragon.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110709&content_id=21669014&vkey=news_t459&fext=.jsp&sid=t459 )〕 The sellout streak is the longest across all professional sports in the US, passing the previous record set by the Portland Trail Blazers from 1977–1995. On May 10, 2014, the streak of consecutive sellouts reached 1,000 games. According to the official team website, every game in the team's 15-year existence has been a sellout. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Dragons Sell-Out Streak Reaches 1,000 )〕 The Dragons continued their sellout streak throughout 2015 and finished the season with their 1,121st straight sold-out game. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dayton Dragons」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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