1959 Prices

[Backtobanks]

Today's Tribune has a chart comparing the last time the Sox were in the WS and this year. This year's WS ticket costs $140 while the 1959 ticket was $7.20. I know I'm not a spring chicken anymore, but I have a hard time believing that $7.20 was a lot of money for a WS ticket when I was 12 years old. Of course, I still wouldn't have spent the money since I was a die-hard Cub fan.

[UMFan83]

Well there was probably less international media, less national media, less representatives of MLB, less celebrities to give tickets to, meaning there was more available to offer at lower prices.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Today's Tribune has a chart comparing the last time the Sox were in the WS and this year. This year's WS ticket costs $140 while the 1959 ticket was $7.20. I know I'm not a spring chicken anymore, but I have a hard time believing that $7.20 was a lot of money for a WS ticket when I was 12 years old. Of course, I still wouldn't have spent the money since I was a die-hard Cub fan.

 

That was an outrageous sum of money to pay for a ticket to a baseball game in 1959 !! Lower level reserveed box seats for the CUBS were going for $2.50 & 3.00 during the regular season in 1959.

[Sparkle]

My grandma paid $2 for a bleacher ticket to the 1959 WS.