And these are ticket prices for exhibition games? Not regular season games?
$4 in 1958 is equivalent to about $42 today.
Someone has to pay all of these multi-million dollar contracts. If you don’t like the prices, stay home. That makes a statement.
Hard to believe people pay these sort of prices just to watch a ball game in person unless they have money to blow. I can think of many other better things to do with that money.
The cost for your tickets wouldn’t even be pocket change for top (supposedly) players today.
I stopped watching MLB during the strike. NFL in 2017. NBA 4 decades ago.
I’m still there with the NHL, tho.
Never been to any kind of pro game and have no interest in ever going to one.
Watch it at home or a local tavern, if you must.
If people buy them, they are priced correctly.
That’s in addition to your tax money that built the stadium.
I haven’t been to a Kansas City Royals baseball game in years, tickets too expensive and too far to drive. The Royals want $2.5 billion in tax payer money to build a new stadium in downtown KC. The Royals finished last season with a record of 56-106, last in their division for the fourth or fifth time in a row. I don’t live in the KC area so it really doesn’t affect me, but how about the Royals running some guys out onto the field who are actually capable of playing major league baseball before they ask for tax payer money? If a professional sports organization can’t make enough money to build their own stadium they better fold up.
It’s sad how much you have to pay to see a professional ballgame, IMO. My son, his wife & the grandkids have been to many ballparks over the years. My daughter & her husband also. Lately, not so much due to the cost. I think the price you pay to watch is now why Banana ball is so popular these days? Tickets for games are, idk, like $10 a ticket, or something close to that. The Savannah Banana’s are so popular, you have to sign up on the waiting list for tickets! Pretty sure both my kids have been signed up for awhile now....waiting for a game to be played close to home. I hope they get to see one of the games sometime soon?
You’re not an $11 billion industry charging $20 a ticket. Major league sports are now major. And expensive.
Dang! For spring exhibition games, no less!
I was in Florida during spring training when I was 19 and we went to a couple of games. I don’t remember what we paid, but I’m sure it was only a few bucks.
I remember in the 80s we could get $2 seats in the “reefer rafters” at the Astrodome for Astros games. We’d hang out there until about the fourth inning, and then slip down and watch the rest of the game from field level seats, often right behind the dugout.
Looks like plenty of tix tomorrow at $22 a pop: