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 I just got back from a trip to NY to visit my kids. For father's day my kids gave me box seat tickets to last Tuesday's game against the Twins. The seats also included prepaid parking and passes to the Stadium Club. The tickets were $65 each.We arrived early to insure a parking spot on the lower level to facilitate a quick exit after the game. If I didn't have prepaid parking it would have been $12 to park. The Stadium Club has a buffett for $37/person. We skipped that in favor of deli sandwichs for about $8 orr $9 each. A small Bass Ale was $8.50. It was a very hot night and no breeze. A one litre bottle of water was $5.50 (.89 in the supermarket). A program is $7 (I passed). How do people take a family to these games? When my kids were young we took them a few times a year.Back in the late 50's I would go once a week when the Yankees were at home. General admission tikets were a $1.25 and later rose to a $1.75 and a reserved seat was about $4. Box seats were about $7.50. A program was a dime. I remember when the price of a program went to a quarter - they would give you a second sheet to keep score in the second game of a double header (remember those). I have the baseball package and get to see almost all of the Yankee games (home games in hi-def). Through the years I usually attended about five games a year until I moved in 2002. Now I make one or two a year when I'm in NY. The prices have gotten to the point of being obsene. I have season seats to the Jets and the cost per game is about $65 - same as these seats - and there are only eight games. We drive to Tampa (3 1/2 hours) to watch the Yankees play the Devil Rays. Tickets are much more reasonable as is the price of refreshments and parking. I go to see the Saint Lucie Mets on Thursday dollar nights - $2 admission and $1 for a hot dog, beer or soda. And always free parking and I can sit right behind the dougout. Admission is usually $4. We live so close to the Mets Stadium (Tradition Field) that we could walk the two miles. We also go to see the Vero Beach Dodgers and the Jupiter Hammerheads. Grow Old But Never Grow-Up |
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When I first went to the stadium, it was a Friday afternoon, "Lady's Day" every
Friday. It cost 10 (TEN)cents! and you could sit anywhere you wanted to. My older sister took me and I was about 6 (1932). She kept a play by play score card and those slash marks and abbreviations were very mysterious to me.Lou Gherig was at first. Joe DiMaggio hadn't arrived yet..but I returned many many times to see Murderer's Row in action. Last time I saw a Yankee game was in Toronto (I live in Ottawa)..The Sky Dome...bah. |
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This is why minor league baseball is so popular! |
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In the great old days of the Yankees they never sold as many seats as now, and the stadium was bigger then. Alot of people are going but not me. I will watch on TV and go to minor league games
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Tickets to Sox games are about $50 without parking or a program. I haven't been this year.
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It's a sad commentary on the state of major league sports. When I was a kid my father, grandfather and I would not only go to the Stadium a few times a year but would also go to the Polo Grounds. Once we even ventured to that far off alien country of Brooklyn to visit Ebbet's Field.
We would go to the Polo Grounds to watch the football Giants and to the old Garden a few times a year for Knick & Ranger games. Prices were reasonable. When my kids were young I took them to the Stadium often & to Shea when the Yankees played there for two years. I split season tickets (second row) for the Nets when they played on Long Island. I remember how we bitched when the tickets went to $9 a game. I haven't been to an NBA game since the Nets went to Jersey. I have tickets to the Daytona 500. It's like season seats in that we get the same seats every year and have had them since the early 70's. The ticket price has escalated over the years from about $45 to $200. The price used to include parking but if you want to park near the track (and avoid a shuttle bus) parking is about $40. The price increase is patially due to our seat location improving to next to the best. Now if you want tickets you must buy a package for races on Thrusday, Friday & Saturday in addition to the Daytona 500 - at a cost of an additional cost of hundreds of dollars. When we lived in NY we would go down to Florida every February for the race - it was a good break from the winter doldrums. Now I scalp the tickets and watch on TV. It's not worth the price and battling the traffic (over 100,000 people attend). Grow Old But Never Grow-Up |
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I remember going to yankee stadium as a kid and letting us in for free. We met Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Yogi etc. Do you remember Red Barber and Mel Allen at the games also advertising Ballantine beer? This was about 1954.
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