Nearly 33,000 fans showed up to watch the final game of the 1919 World Series. At a time when ticket stubs weren’t considered much of a keepsake by most fans, few survived the trip back home. Even fewer survived the decades to come, when spring cleaning probably claimed more than a few. Those who were inside Comiskey Park on October 9, 1919 saw the end of a … [Read more...]
Update: Hard Copy 2020 World Series Tickets Do Exist, But They’ll Be Super Scarce
While hard copy tickets to the 2020 World Series were not an option for most fans and it first appeared as if 2020 would be the first year that collectors wouldn't have access to them, that's not entirely true. It appears a small number do exist, and they appear to be destined to become some of the rarest World Series tickets of all time. Collectors who happened to … [Read more...]
No Tickets to Collect from 2020 World Series?
They have a history that dates back to the first game in 1903 but there may not be any tickets to collect for the 2020 World Series. Major League Baseball has allowed about 11,500 socially distanced, masked fans to be in the stands for this year’s games, but so far we haven’t seen any physical tickets come to market for collectors to snare. It’s another blow to a … [Read more...]
Popular World Series Ticket Stubs from the Last 50 Years
Go to a sporting event these days and chances are you'll enter without a physical copy of your ticket. Smartphones and bar codes have turned the ticket collector into an endangered species. Many fans don't care, but it's a discouraging development for those who wish the tradition could live on. While it's not as easy--or as colorful--as it once was, the World … [Read more...]
Ricky Williams’ Heisman, Top-Rated World Series Ticket Collection Headline Auction
The number one rated set of World Series tickets on the PSA Set Registry joins Ricky Williams’ 1998 Heisman Trophy, Doak Walker and Walter Camp awards among the marquee lots in Heritage Auctions’ October Platinum Night Auction. In all, more than 1,200 lots are in the auction, set to close over two nights, October 17 and 18. As we reported this summer, Williams’ Heisman … [Read more...]
Louisville Slugger Auction Returns in November
Not long after the big leaguers put away their bats for the season, the company that makes most of them will host one of the year’s top annual baseball memorabilia events. The 15th annual Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory Auction will take place on November 9. “It has been an amazing journey over the last 15 years to have the privilege of being associated with … [Read more...]
Ramblings: Parsippany Card Shows and Trivia With Barry Halper
by Rich Klein The best part about these ramblings is I think of great leads all week, but when I sit down at the computer to write, the story always ends up going in a different direction than I planned. Last week, I had planned to write a tribute to my father in honor of what would have been his 91st birthday on October 29, but the little matter of World Series tickets and … [Read more...]
Vintage World Series Programs Offer Collector Challenges
It's a supply and demand world but Alan Getz thinks the equation is heavily weighted on the latter. "90 percent of that is demand. You can have something that might be from 1908 and maybe the only one like it in the world, but if no one wants it, it's not worth much." It's a formula that dominates the collecting world including sports programs, a Getz specialty since he … [Read more...]