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The Biz of Baseball: Tickets for Final Games At Yankee Stadium Running As High As $18,300

According to secondary ticket market company RazorGator, seats to each and every home game remain available. Data shows that ticket prices are not just hot for the final regular season game at Yankee Stadium, but the entire final homestand. The average ticket price for the finale on Sept. 21 is $1,111 while the median for the other nine games is $222. The New York Mets finale at Shea Stadium is the next most-coveted ticket, averaging $425. Overall, the average price for the home finales of all 30 MLB teams is $98, according to RazorGator. Several teams have tickets selling for as low as $5.

“The reality of this being ‘it’ for a venue as rich in history as Yankee Stadium is definitely bringing a huge number of fans to the market,” says Scott Roback, Vice President of Business Development for RazorGator.

“Imagine the memories that started with a trip to Yankee Stadium, so many fans are looking for one last memory, a chance to say they ‘were there’ and a chance to say goodbye.”

Jeez...goodbye already.

Repoz Posted: September 12, 2008 at 12:09 PM | 15 comment(s)
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1. RB in NYC (Now with Resolutions!) Posted: September 12, 2008 at 11:14 AM (#2939215)

I was thinking about this, I don't think I could attend the last game at Yankee Stadium, even if I won tickets or something. (There's a million contests of that nature.) I had a hard enough time at my last game there, I think I'd just be miserable at the last game.

2. winnipegwhip Posted: September 12, 2008 at 12:22 PM (#2939312)

I will be attending and I don't know how I will react. The first time my wife saw me with water in my eyes was at the last night game at the old Comiskey (we had been dating for a over a year at that point.) I don't know how I will hold up in front of my daughter next Sunday.

Although I don't think it will be as bad as the week after this game:

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2004/B10030NYN2004.htm

3. Maury Brown Posted: September 12, 2008 at 12:26 PM (#2939318)

When the table was created at the linked article, I said to myself, "Take in the White Sox series." The bleacher seats for the last game are going for over $400. Insane.

4. winnipegwhip Posted: September 12, 2008 at 12:30 PM (#2939325)

Maury have you heard any info regarding closing or special ceremonies over the last few games?

5. Dayton Moore is a Big Fat Idiot (AG#1F) Posted: September 12, 2008 at 12:44 PM (#2939347)

Maury have you heard any info regarding closing or special ceremonies over the last few games?

There will be no trophy-lifting it appears.

6. Cooperstown Schtick Posted: September 12, 2008 at 12:47 PM (#2939353)

Tickets for Final Games At Yankee Stadium Running As High As $18,300

Is that legal?

I have tickets for next Saturday, which is the last day game at the Stadium. Easier ticket to get, much cheaper, and more the way I want to remember the Stadium. I think it's a shame they let ESPN turn the final game into a night game.

I had a hard enough time at my last game there, I think I'd just be miserable at the last game.

My dad, a huge Yankee fan, passed away this summer. I anticipate much misery next weekend, saying goodbye to a lot of things. But, you know, the good kind of misery.

7. kubiwan Posted: September 12, 2008 at 02:04 PM (#2939471)

a chance to say they ‘were there’ and a chance to say goodbye

a chance to "acquire" a one-of-a-kind souvenir...

8. Zach Posted: September 12, 2008 at 02:30 PM (#2939524)

Better buy your tickets now. What if you end up buying from a scalper just before gametime and he can't break a $20,000 dollar bill?

9. Gamingboy Posted: September 12, 2008 at 04:41 PM (#2939708)

Awful lot to pay to attend a riot.

10. Boots Day Posted: September 12, 2008 at 04:58 PM (#2939728)

It isn't clear from the article whether people are actually paying $18,300 for a ticket, or whether there's just someone asking for that much.

11. Maury Brown Posted: September 12, 2008 at 05:41 PM (#2939768)

Boots, it appears to be offering price. Hence "going for" [insanely stupid price]

12. Toolsy McClutch Posted: September 13, 2008 at 08:32 AM (#2940100)

I've never really understood the need to be first or last at attending something.

13. Jolly Old St. Neck Wound, Marching Through Georgia

Posted: September 13, 2008 at 09:04 AM (#2940108)

In 1991 I went to the last game at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, and not only bought a great mezzanine seat from a "scalper" outside the stadium for face value**, but when I entered through the turnstiles Brady Anderson and Cal Ripken were there taking the tickets and thanking the fans. Needless to say, I doubt if anyone's going to be able to duplicate that sort of value at Yankee Stadium.

Although if The Captain ends the season by grounding into a double play, that'll be one thing that the two final games will have had in common.

**This was the rule and not the exception in pre-Camden Yards Baltimore, even for super high demand games like that one. And in Yankee Stadium, during the 1976 World Series you had your choice of many face value tickets if you waited until just before the game was going to begin.

14. rLr Is King Of The Romans And Above Grammar Posted: September 13, 2008 at 09:45 AM (#2940117)

Although if The Captain ends the season by grounding into a double play, that'll be one thing that the two final games will have had in common.

Jeter's spent the whole season preparing for just that moment.

15. Swoboda is freedom Posted: September 13, 2008 at 09:50 AM (#2940120)

I am hoping that it is a rainout.

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