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I had no trouble getting tickets to Wrigley this year. I was in the wristband lottery but my number was too high so I went home and bought tickets online.

I was able to get the maximum allowed and all were weekend games except one. There were still plenty of tickets available to weekday games later in the day that they went on sale.
 

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Cubs have the highest average ticket prices in baseball


<!-- <script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script> -->by Scott Fleischer
The Cubs have already beaten both the Red Sox and Yankees in one category, average ticket prices. According to Team Marketing Report, the Cubs now have the highest average ticket price in Major League Baseball. The average price for a ticket to Wrigley Field is now $52.56. Tickets to Fenway cost an average of $52.32 and a ticket for Yankee Stadium costs $51.83.
The Cubs are second to the Red Sox in a category titled, “FCI,” Fan Cost Index. They only trail the Red Sox by $5 in the FCI listings.
Overall, the average Major League Baseball ticket prices increased slightly for 2010.
The White Sox have the fourth-highest average ticket price, $38.65.
 

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With fees and taxes, $75 for summer weekend bleacher seats.
 

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Use the money to hire a hooker...>>

At least then when you are getting screwed; you have a smile on your face...

gl

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When I first started going to Wrigley Field, reserved box seats were $2.50, grandstand was all unreserved and cost $1.60, bleachers were $0.75. But if you were a kid a grandstand seat was $0.60. Friday sfternoon was ladies day and all women got in free. Most Sundays featured a doubleheader, but very few were sellouts. An average weekday crowd was about 7,000.

It had already been more than ten years since the Cubs last played in a World Series and the club had slowly become a perennial second division ballclub. As such there was a bit more excitement and a better ball club on the South Side. That team did win a pennant just a few years later.

If you hung out awhile after a game at Wrigley for autographs, you sometimes ran into a young Ernie Banks on the El platform at the Addison St. station as he waited to catch a train to his south side home.
 

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