I can tell you that as recently as the mid-"80's Winfield/Henderson/Mattingly Era of the Yanks; a bleacher seat was $4 and a upper tier seat on the infield side was $6. I remember because a movie ticket in Manhattan in the mid-late "80's was $9.....ballgame was a much better deal!!
@jacksmith5692
Жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same thing, those tickets were expensive. I remember being with my Dad in 1971 driving to Shea Stadium on a Sunday and buying two great box seats in August to see the Mets and Dodgers and they cost around $4 a box seat. We sat behind the Mets dugout. Kenny Singleton homered off Bill Singer and Richie Allen hit a bomb out by the light towers off Ray Sadecki. $20 went a long way to watch a ball game in 1971 and if you wanted they allowed you to bring in food like subs or deli sandwiches and snacks.
@billl1127
Жыл бұрын
As kids in the early 70s we'd go to Yankee and Mets games. Box seats were out of the question. We paid a buck or less for upper deck or bleachers. The ushers would walk you to your seats, wipe them down, then expect a tip which we at kids never offered.
@ct6852
Жыл бұрын
9$ in the 80's?? Is that true? I think it's still under that where I live now.
@chrispraz877
Жыл бұрын
@@ct6852 in Manhattan?
@ct6852
Жыл бұрын
@@chrispraz877 College town in N. Cali
@bornyesterday21
Жыл бұрын
I went to the last game at the old Yankee Stadium in 1973 .. Box seats were $4.00 .. I took my seat home with me .. Made of wood and steel .. I still have it ... Sec. 33 Box 165E Seat 5
@jackshittle
Жыл бұрын
Two things that stick with me today; I had NY Giants season tickets in 1988. They were upper bowl, approx 15 yd line, first row, two aisle seats. The price on the ticket (including tax) says $26/each. Then in 1995 I bought tickets (through a ticket broker) for the Stanley Cup Finals without knowing if NJ would even make it to the playoffs (let alone the finals since they've never made it there before). I got two tickets in the upper bowl, center ice, about 3/4 of the way up and the price on the ticket says $40 (for each one). I ended up paying $150 each through the broker & ended seeing NJ win it's first Stanley Cup ever. I looked yesterday at some of the finals tickets on Seat Geek. I think it was either game 5 or 6 where the cheapest ticket just to walk in is over $1000 each. Once I moved to Seattle in 1996 I heard on the radio that Paul Allen lowered the cost of several thousand seats for Seahawks games to $10 each. By the time I got to work myself & some friends bought tickets. At $10 each the entire season cost me $100. I kept renewing them until the new stadium opened up and at that point the tickets were $26 each. Back then games were doable. Now they are out of control with the cost of a ticket, parking, PSL's, food, drink etc. What a shame.
@daltontannery3243
Жыл бұрын
I tried to go to the World Series in 2021 cause I'm a Georgia boy who loves the Braves. But then i found out that the nosebleed tickets were $500 each, and gas is gonna cost right around $140 or $150, the one time i went during the regular season a burrito and a drink costed me $15, beer is $8 a glass, we got lucky on the parking garage it was free, but I'm also gonna most likely get a motel for the night and the cheapest 1 star roach motel you're gonna find is like $50 a night, and on top of all of that all in all i was gonna be driving atleast 8 hours. And that's not including the red lights, the traffic, the stops, etc. So in total I'm driving 8 hours and spending anywhere between $600 and $700 just to watch a game that won't even last as long as the ride there much less there and back. So really and truly i had 2 choices, blow an entire paycheck on a baseball game or use that money to pay bills and be able to stay in my house another month. So i sat my fat ass home and watched the game on tv
@jackshittle
Жыл бұрын
@@daltontannery3243 That sucks & is a shame. Other then football, the other sports (as you know) play up to 7 games in the finals. So if you can only go to one game trying to pick THE game where your team wins it is almost impossible (unless you have unlimited $$$). The broker wanted to give me game 3 tickets for the Stanley Cup. I asked if he had game 4 and he said sure & asked if I'd rather have those. My thinking was that if NJ makes it to the finals & some how they win the first 3 games, that I would be at game 4 where they could sweep & win the cup. Well that's what ended up happening but it was sure luck that it worked out that way. Paying $500+ per ticket for a game where the cup isn't going to awarded no matter what is ridiculous (like games 1-3). Also, trying to pick the game your team wins AT HOME is even more impossible. Thinking back when I was kid & could get seats behind the Mets dugout for $9 ea & could sit on top of the dugout during batting practice to get autographs etc seems like not that long ago.
@daltontannery3243
Жыл бұрын
@@jackshittle yea and the Braves ended up winning the World Series in Houston so it really would've been a waste of money
@jackshittle
Жыл бұрын
@@daltontannery3243 👍
@daltontannery3243
Жыл бұрын
@@jackshittle now that i think about it, me and my papa was going so tickets alone were gonna cost $1,000. So all in all i was gonna be paying anywhere between $1,600-$1,700. And that would've been an entire month of pay so yea to hell with that
@larryhatcher8927
Жыл бұрын
One thing to remember about prices in the 50s and the 60s.........Your dad worked, your mom probably didn't, but he still made enough (even on a blue collar job) to buy a house and send his kids to college....Those days are long gone
@yell0wberry
Жыл бұрын
If my wife has two arms and two legs and could possibly help double our household income, then I would definitely feel a certain way if she sat around the house all day while I work and her excuse is that she’s doing housework. Put the kids in daycare, ordered dinner from Uber eats, and everybody participates in housework and yardwork over the weekend.
@conbitches
Жыл бұрын
We need to put that same fear into major companies that they used to have back in these days. They were afraid to raise prices on people because if they did, they run the risk of people moving on to another product. Where did we go so wrong?
@williamchilcott2833
Жыл бұрын
Greed and gluttony. And the dumming down of American people.
@thefuzzman
Жыл бұрын
They realized we'd pay whatever they decided to charge
@conbitches
Жыл бұрын
@@thefuzzman Absolutely. There are studies that suggest common people without a lot of money actually feel legitimized or feel “richer” when they pay exorbitant prices for things. It’s so screwed up. Brand reliance has completely altered the way people consume. We’ve gotten to a point where we’ve accepted that prices will just continue to go up and up and up.
@NathanJakobMichaelThomas
Жыл бұрын
@@conbitches they figured out how to make everything addictive
@chrisjuliano3964
Жыл бұрын
The problem today is for example, (I'm going to paraphrase the names, but the concept is true) Kelloggs owns like all the cereals, Coke and Pepsi own all the drinks, snacks and food chains, another major company owns all the blah blah and the list goes on. In summary only a few huge companies own almost all the products. Therefore, they don't care if you switch brands because they probably own that one was well.
@jayoakes7874
Жыл бұрын
I ain't paying no 6 cents for no coke
@theknightswhosay
Жыл бұрын
My dad grew up in the 1950s. Unless it was a rare televised game on one of two channels or he read a box score somewhere, the only baseball he could follow was the Yankees on the radio.
@sylvainbeaulieu6300
Жыл бұрын
Here in Montreal when the Expos played their inaugural season in 1969 at Jarry Park a bleacher seat cost $1.00 (CAN) and a box seat was $5.50 (CAN). Adjusted today (2022) those same tickets would cost $8.00 (bleachers) and $45.00 (box seats)
@Lava1964
Жыл бұрын
The first year of the Toronto Blue Jays (1977), ticket prices ranged from $2 to $7 Canadian. A huge Coke could be bought for $2, so could souvenir pennants for every MLB team. Concession prices today are ridiculous by any reasonable standard.
@TheBatugan77
Жыл бұрын
Box seats were still only $3.50-$4 in the late 60's at Yankee Stadium. Reserved $2.50-$3. Gen Admission $1-2...and after the 3rd inning you could sit anywhere if the seat were not occupied.
@daltontannery3243
Жыл бұрын
A Braves ticket during the 2021 World Series cost $500 just for the nosebleed section
@idiotidiot5821
Жыл бұрын
I went to an Indians game and ushers came up to us and said we could sit pretty much anywhere empty if we wanted and this was in the early 00s. Got down as far as we could and watched Alomar smash one out of the park right after hitting a foul off the section of seats we were just at lol
@Baseballify
26 күн бұрын
This video is very interesting I was always interested in the 1880s-1959 Baseball and the world at that time so combining both is awesome
@cahg3871
Жыл бұрын
My grandfather,gone since 1992,told me that for him to see the Toronto Maple Leafs in the late 20’s to mid 30’s was about 50 cents-25 cents for a steak and a beer at a restaurant around the corner and 25 cents for the game itself.Last time I heard a beer at the ACC is $18.
@larryhatcher8927
Жыл бұрын
I was a kid when the Braves started playing in Atlanta. A GA seat $1 for adults and 50 cents for kids. A field level seat went for $3.50 and a dugout level seat was $5. Later on as a teenager in the 70s and 80s, I remember prices for rock concerts. I remember a Who concert in 1975 was $6.50. Later in the 70s, I paid $3 cover charge to see such people as Billy Joel, REO Speedwagon, Kansas, Bob Seager and many others
@daltontannery3243
Жыл бұрын
A Braves ticket during the 2021 World Series cost $500 just for the nosebleed section
@baronobeefdip7092
Жыл бұрын
Life was so easy back then
@MustacheDLuffy
2 жыл бұрын
Underrated content keep it up!
@BaseballCardIllustrated
Жыл бұрын
What an excellent and informative video. I remember hearing my mom tell stories of what things used to cost. I really had wondered what tickets and concessions cost in other markets in other eras. Very well done! I hope you do more videos like this one.
@leeshackelford7517
Жыл бұрын
I was a student, a starving university student, at San Jose State, in the mid to late 80s. I was starving, but one of my professors played cello for the San Jose Symphony. I got my season tickets 1/2 off....if I remember correctly, about $6 per ticket. I figured that losing 1 meal every two weeks or so, in exchange for some lovely live Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Handel, Stravinsky, Mendelssohn...was worth it. I'm a lifetime fan of the Giants, the Warriors, A's....since I was born in San Francisco, but I chose music over games. (Tickets were about even, but had transportation costs to Candlestick Park or the Oakland Coliseum. I've only been to one SF Giants game...it was opening day......and I forgot which team would be visiting. Just off work, wearing Levi's and a blue t-shirt....hahaha I had to buy a Giants cap to get the hecklers off my back (wearing blue, in the nosebleed seats, with the Dodgers in town, was a bad idea. The cap blew my budget...and I was 1 meal a day for several days) Fun times
@jamesrobertson9761
Жыл бұрын
This channel is great. Thank you for these gems of knowledge.
@emersonmanning1124
Жыл бұрын
Just found this and started watching all your content. This is well made and is amazing. Keep it up
@dougstyles
Жыл бұрын
Always loved the Polo Grounds. Such an odd,but original creation. The outfield was insanely huge.
@Photognick521
Жыл бұрын
As a photographer my favorite thing about this video is all the old photographs.
@toddzimmerman1939
Жыл бұрын
I've always been curious about what game schedules were before night baseball. who went to the game during a work day
@nominalize
2 ай бұрын
People who took the afternoon off. Schoolkids out for the summer. Retirees.
@bl3313
2 ай бұрын
@@nominalizeThere were also people who worked odd hours - many factories ran 24 hours a day. If you worked overnight, you could sleep until time to go to the game.
@hiramnoone
Жыл бұрын
Baseball used to be the best bargain in entertainment. Here in Chicago, no free TV, no free radio even. And if you go to a game with your family, you're lucky if you don't have to take out a second mortgage and they don't demand the pink slip on your car.
@roberthansen9694
2 жыл бұрын
I paid $16 to attend four games of the 1972 World Series in Oakland. Bleacher seats of course but I got to see Willie Mays get his last base hit ever in a professional game.
@TheBrianFellow
Жыл бұрын
are you sure that wasn't the '73 series
@melreslor2114
Жыл бұрын
@@TheBrianFellow Cincinn Reds were the A's National League opponents in '72. You are right, Mays was in the 1973 series with the Mets.
@roberthansen9694
Жыл бұрын
Yep it was the 73 World Series I attended. The Athletics had won the 72 as well. I still remember watching Yogi Berra standing ther watching batting practice. After 50 years events tend to run together. Even at $4 a pop, there were lots of empty seats. Mays swung and hit an infield bouncer but he was able to beat the throw. That was his last base hit ever.
@billl1127
Жыл бұрын
@@roberthansen9694 I went to my one and only World Series in 73 at Shea. Rusty Staub hit a HR.
@chesslerbooks
2 жыл бұрын
I like comparing the cost of things. Cost of gas in the 1960s. I had a job pumping gas in Brooklyn in the mid 1960s. Gas was .20 to .22 cents. Incredible, the same price it had always been. About 1950 my parents bought a 2 family home in a middle class neighborhood for $8000, and sold it in the 1960s for $14,000. In 1972 I drove cross country in my new car, a full size Ford van just like the ones they make today, with a V8, that I paid $4000 for. I replaced it in 1973 with a Dodge Van, also for $4000. On the 1972 drive I was paying under 30 cents a gallon for gas. There was a price war in Detroit so gas there was 22 cents. So a tank of gas, 15 gallons, was $4.50. But 1973 was the killer year, that's when the Arabs raised the price of oil, and the world changed. Also in baseball, in the mid 1960s I went to a few Mets games at the new Shea stadium, bought the cheapest tickets, and I seem to recall it was $1.85 or so. I took a date one time, and know I would not have been able to spend more than $4 for the two of us.
@jacksmith5692
Жыл бұрын
Yeah Joe Biden claims he and his Dad sat around the kitchen table sweating out gas prices and from 1944 to 1964 gas went from 22 cents to 28 to 30 cents depending where you lived. Ok Joe, keep riding that bike and save on gas.
@xxxYYZxxx
Жыл бұрын
These days you wouldn't get a date to a baseball stadium w/o showing proof of a 6-figure income first. 😄
@ghandibanks
2 жыл бұрын
Great video. Baseball is truly my favourite pastime
@historyofthejerseyshore
Жыл бұрын
Great videos and love your channel!
@WillieSimpson777
Жыл бұрын
I just want to know how people took off work to go to all the day games?
@kingly71
2 ай бұрын
haha... well the lower demand would help explain the prices
@JacobKaplan95
Жыл бұрын
1st time I’ve seen something from your channel and this video made me immediately subscribe
@carlbrewerii1619
Жыл бұрын
Your videos are well thought out, well researched, and articulate. Keep up the good work. Look forward to more!
@UncleTonyGuitar
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the excellent and most interesting video. One note: Americans did not vote for the 18th amendment (prohibition). Congress did.
@yell0wberry
Жыл бұрын
They didn’t vote in their states to legalize marijuana either but the legislature was smart enough to know that the overall income would bring them as many dollars as alcohol does
@johannesmichaelalhaugthoma4215
Жыл бұрын
Great research and presentation! Cheers
@risboturbide9396
Жыл бұрын
Great video; thank you, Professor!
@quakers200
Жыл бұрын
My dad listened to baseball football and hockey on the radio. He had a great memory for how well a player was doing that season as well as the schools minor and major league teams they had been on . This was not at all I usual back in those days. For a time my folks spent winters in Florida and Arizona and of course were able to watch live baseball for several years. So long ago.
@joshlonon2614
Жыл бұрын
Very cool. Really well put together video!
@jordanw5833
Жыл бұрын
4:10 “Sound familiar?” *me who paid $6.50 a gallon last week “No”
@IAmJustSaying6
Жыл бұрын
I remember paying 5 or 6 $ in the late '70s for a Dodgers upper deck ticket. Back then we could ride the elevator down to the first deck without security, or travel the maze of stairs and corridors to the 1st deck. Upon which a known usher would let us know which box seat holder was not going to show up for the game. $6 for box seats at Dodger Stadium? Can't beat it.
@9Ballr
Жыл бұрын
You took me out to the ball game, you took me out to the crowd. Thanks!
@TheBatugan77
Жыл бұрын
As recently as 1984, we could get into Wrigley Field for a $2 general admission... And we were able to bring a bag of White Castle Burgers into the park.
@tissuepaper9962
Жыл бұрын
B-b-but you can't bring that into the stadium what if it's a _bomb_ or, god forbid, *reasonably priced!*
@17Helton
Жыл бұрын
If you had a bag of White Castle Burgers once a week (and a Cubs fan during the last century) you are lucky to be alive in 2022. 😌 I am fortunate to have been able to see a game at Wrigley. Summer of 1979 the Cubbies beat the visiting LAD 2-1 in a pitcher's battle between Lynn McGlothen and Rick Sutcliffe (about 5 years later Sutcliffe joined the Cubs in 1984.
@TheBatugan77
Жыл бұрын
I was stationed at GLakes in 1984. The Cubs had a couple of unknowns, Bob Dernier and some kid named Sandburg, or Sandcliffe, or something like that. Called them the Daily Double! All my Chicago friends said the Cubs would swoon in June. They didn't. 🎵 It was a very good year 🎵
@spjr99
Жыл бұрын
dang i was hyped to see how much the beer would be and then you mentioned prohibition. if i had a time machine i'd love to catch and old school ball game
@schafnasty7190
Жыл бұрын
You got a sub!!! Great work my friend!!
@michaelmorris6575
Жыл бұрын
Great video! Thanks for sharing.
@frankalbin8547
Жыл бұрын
Great channel. Thanks
@crimsoniron937
Жыл бұрын
I really enjoy baseball history. This vid is awesome! Thanks for hustling down the research base paths for us. Atta baby! Low five!
@ernesthromada3994
Жыл бұрын
I remember when a dime bag used to cost a dime.
@BMoney77
Жыл бұрын
How much were condoms?
@Griggs58
Жыл бұрын
@@BMoney77 He just said they were a dime.
@billl1127
Жыл бұрын
As a kid, I paid $2 for a souvenir replica Padres helmet @ 1972. Some guy paid me $5 for it cause he couldn't find one. I thought I made the deal of a lifetime.
@christopherhoran2041
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing love it 😀
@whalesequence
Жыл бұрын
Back in the 20's kids regularly worked, so it's likely a lot of them bought their own baseball gear
@tommymarrin7091
Жыл бұрын
My dad would get tickets at Yankee Stadium in the late ‘90s for $5 in the bleachers. Must’ve been a great experience
@johnmoore6853
Жыл бұрын
In the mid-80's bleacher seats were $1.50 at Yankee Stadium. And I remember going as a kid in the late 60's to Shea Stadium with my mother bringing a brown paper bag full of sandwiches and soda. You were allowed to bring outside food in back then
@andrewalden8364
Жыл бұрын
Awesome video!
@VL1975
Жыл бұрын
I was reading that blip about the murder rate in NYC @1:10 That's fascinating. Cool video!
@anthonyriche552
Жыл бұрын
Well done and put together. You covered everything perfectly! Things really were cheaper back then not just in price but we got more value for our buck. Companies and manufacturers seemed more focused on doing good business and making a good living versus today where they try and make a killing.
@atl3630
Жыл бұрын
They were trying to make a killing back then too. However; back then the people were willing to walk away from spending. Now they aren’t.
@daltontannery3243
Жыл бұрын
Which is exactly why i want to own a pawn shop lol, you bring me a $50 piece and I'll buy it from you for $5. Cause honestly now a days people actually think thats fair.
@MikeSpille
Жыл бұрын
Great stuff! Thank you so much. I love that you converted the prices to today's dollars. Generally people tend to think things were cheaper back then even though the prices really haven't changed that much.
@David-yw2lv
2 ай бұрын
I went to a game at the Juice Box in Houston 14 years ago.A seat behind home plate was $25Hot dogs were $8 each.I haven't been since.
@Zaaaaaaaaaaaaa1
Жыл бұрын
Great Video.
@rickgodley1018
Жыл бұрын
Nice work.
@hoponpop3330
Жыл бұрын
I remember in the 1950’s a bleacher ticket at Yankee Stadium was .75 cents . I believe Reserved seats were in the $2.00 range with box seats around $4.00 I don’t think they sell those seats anymore..
@elstongunn1385
Жыл бұрын
My Mom met and shook hands with Babe Ruth at her school it was during the barnstorming era.
@roadtrip2943
Жыл бұрын
During late 50s a school program offered bleacher admission for 50 cents, by the 7 th inning we'd be in lower box seats give a meddlesome usher a folded buck and we were good
@jeffreytrencher6533
Жыл бұрын
Early 60s Yankee Stadium. Bleachers 50 cents, cheapest grandstand seats $1.25. We would go to the Sunday double headers and sneak down to the box seats during the 2nd game. Never caught a ball at the Stadium but finally did in 1996 at Fenway park.
@John572d4
Жыл бұрын
At Fenway there is also a reasonable chance to get batting practice balls which are hit over the Green Monster (and over its netting) onto Landsdowne Street pre-game, that left field wall is really a short porch, and probably too short nowadays for MLB.
@TheBatugan77
Жыл бұрын
I always try to talk myself into seeing a game live here in Phoenix. But then I always realize I can get a nice hotel room and watch the game in comfort, with snacks and a six-pack and a lazyboy recliner... and it's CHEAPER.
@howie9751
Жыл бұрын
In the sixties, Yankee Stadium was $3.50 for box seats, $2.50 for reserved, and $1.50 for general admission seating in the upper deck. Bleachers were $0.50. Shea Stadium was the same except it was $1.30 for upper deck general admission seating. By the late seventies prices were going up a bit, and the owners phased out upper deck general admission seating and made the seats reserved, .as they are now. I think standing room was still considered general admission. With the increase in attendance in the late eighties and the nineties prices were raised even more and continue to go up.
@TheBatugan77
Жыл бұрын
Those are the prices I remember. Also, the Jerome Ave el was 20c when I lived there. So it was 90c for a round trip (6 stops) and a bleacher seat!
@howie9751
Жыл бұрын
@@TheBatugan77 It was 15c when I first started going there, became 20c in the mid sixties. But why 6 stops?
@jackebner
Жыл бұрын
Around 1969, Met tickets were $3.50 box seats, $2.50 loge, and $1.50 general admission. Me and my friend would cut school, buy GA seats, and sneak down to the box seats, sometimes a small tip to the usher served to avoid getting booted.
@TheBatugan77
Жыл бұрын
In Yankee Stadium in those years, if you bought a General Admission ticket ($1-2) you could sit in any seat that wasn't occupied after the 3rd inning. Since YS had 67,000 seats, and never sold out... I wound up anywhere from behind the Yankees dugout to near the RF foul pole...which were great seats! Only 296 feet with a 4 foot fence!
@wilrobles9824
Жыл бұрын
I wouldn't mind going back in time to watch a few games, but being able to spend today's money.
@jamalcolorado4260
Жыл бұрын
Awesome video! I love baseball❤️
@yourguidetorights3909
Жыл бұрын
Used to get into Forbes Field to watch the Pirates in the late 50's, early 60's bleachers in right field for $0.25. After the top of the 7th you could walk in free. In the early 70's sat 10 rows behind Red Sox dugout in Fenway for $3.75.
@kendallevans4079
Жыл бұрын
Seems like the last 10-20 years has seen exponential cost increase in the tickets. Gee, maybe because the salaries are off the charts these days even for an average player? I was a fan up until about 2005 then it just got ridicules, pitchers making 30 Million? They play every 4 days!
@vassa1972
Жыл бұрын
Interesting video
@xxxYYZxxx
Жыл бұрын
The average annual income in the 20's was equivalent to ~$15k/yr today when adjusted to inflation. Yeah, and Pike's Peak was just a pimple back then too. 😄Seriously, $15k is 5-6 months rent today, with nothing left over for food, gas, insurance, or water for that matter.
@robertperrella4194
Жыл бұрын
correct, the 4 letter word in today's society is R-E-N-T !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! rent and/or mortgage is 70% of disposable income!!!!! well at least the mortgage is tax deductible where $2,200.00 mortgage is more like $1,200.00 a month after the state and federal income tax refund!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@aj402
Жыл бұрын
Todays pro sports arent worth the trouble. I go to local high school football games, Baylor basketball, baseball and football. Texas is warmer, cheaper and the sports are pretty good too. Little League World Series in Williamsport was great fun also.
@marshalltucker9050
Жыл бұрын
The $3.50-4 a gallon sounding familiar didn’t age well and this is 3 weeks since the upload
@alandesouzacruz5124
17 күн бұрын
Fascinating i love the roaring 1920s
@carspiv
Жыл бұрын
I was listening to the radio broadcast of last Sunday’s Yankee game, and every. Single. “subject” had a sponsor. The lineups. The first pitch. The time. The weather. The broadcast booth had a sponsor. If each “sponsor” or “sale” was represented by a flag, the United Nations would look like a very exclusive club by comparison. The game has been oversold at every possible point of contact. Go to a game, and there isn’t a moment during the game or between innings that you’re not battered by a constant barrage of someone or something hawking something in an effort to climb into your wallet or pocketbook. This blitzkrieg bombardment of commercialism seems to be squeezing every conceivable drop of REVENUE from any nook, crack or cranny; there’s not a stone or a slate unturned in the unending quest for the last dollar that can be squeezed out of the customers. It’s never enough, and never will be enough. Especially when $100 million player contracts are thrown around like the vendors tossing bags of peanuts.
@yell0wberry
Жыл бұрын
Well, John Sterling and Susan Waldman have to get paid some kind of way, lol
@TheBatugan77
Жыл бұрын
That well-endowed lady at :48. - Big Woody
@BobbyBoca
Жыл бұрын
Yes take me and my family back to this time !
@chriszenko6355
Жыл бұрын
I remember in the 1970s it cost 4 dollars for box seats at Shea Stadium.
@MH3GL
Жыл бұрын
The price of baseball gloves would not shock a modern day person? The top of the line baseball gloves today sell for $450. That's a far cry from "$72 - when adjusted for inflation."
@yell0wberry
Жыл бұрын
More than 20 years ago, I bought a professional level Derek Jeter glove for about $175
@bradleybalsters2078
Жыл бұрын
I get into Busch Stadium regularly for between $5 and $10 in 2022!
@adamnorvell
Жыл бұрын
You can go to a lower ranking teams games for under $20 today and standing room at the Giants stadium is only $7 during the season against lower ranking teams
@nancymilawski1048
Жыл бұрын
Maybe you could do an analysis of the baseball cap, both design changes and the price charged to customers. 😃😃
@paulyC
Жыл бұрын
Cap and/or glove would be cool to see.
@The.Original.Potatocakes
Жыл бұрын
This park has crazy dimensions
@bondsons
10 ай бұрын
The gouging that companies do for concessions today is reprehensible. This video just rubs salt in the wound.
@thebaseballprofessor
10 ай бұрын
What a baseball game costs in Los Angeles is obscene and it saddens me because 5 dollar tickets were available twenty years ago
@robertcooney1938
Жыл бұрын
That center field fence looks like it's over 500 feet.
@PoppysGuitar
Жыл бұрын
It seems you are using a 15x multiplier. How did you arrive at that multiple? Thanks.
@thebaseballprofessor
Жыл бұрын
Hi Andrew, I used an inflation calculator based on the Consumer Price Index. www.usinflationcalculator.com/
@tracyyoung224
Жыл бұрын
I wish I could have went to the polo grounds seen the great Giants teams in the early 1900s I love baseball history.
@thebaseballprofessor
Жыл бұрын
I'm like you. I wish I could see McGraw's Giants at the Polo Grounds, partially for the stellar play and partially to see and hear baseball before night games, loudspeakers, and lights.
@tracyyoung224
11 ай бұрын
@@thebaseballprofessor Please make a video about Fred Merkle New York Giants.
@jim6233
Жыл бұрын
Late 70’s era. Four friends. Two Met fans, and two Yankee fans. We rode the subway to Shea or Yankee Stadium almost every Sunday. 1.50 General Admission seats. That got you in. Then 1.00 for each kid into an ushers palm got you box seats for the day. 1.00 hot dogs. 1.00 cokes. Fifty cent peanuts. Those were the days. :)
@billl1127
Жыл бұрын
I was never smart enough to try to bribe the usher. Good move.
@jim6233
Жыл бұрын
@@billl1127 dude. It worked every time. If the season ticket holder showed up, they moved you safely. Ask me some day about going to Ranger games at MSG. Lol
@spjr99
Жыл бұрын
"the price of gas hovered between 3.50 and 4.00. sound familiar?" *me, paying 6 dollars a gallon for the past 4 months*: "Pepperidge farm remembers"
@scissors656
Жыл бұрын
nowdays a beer costs 15 bucks
@brianking2365
Жыл бұрын
Subbed!
@geoffroi-le-Hook
Жыл бұрын
Honus does not rhyme with bonus. Think of it as a shorter form of Johannes. (I saw a video where Lou Gehrig pronounced it Honnus.)
@roberthughes35
Жыл бұрын
1956 left house in Greenpoint Brooklyn. Too Graham Ave. bus to Nassau Ave. Transfered to Lorimer St. Bus. Got off bus across the St. From Ebbetts Field Saw Carl Erskine pitch no hitter against NY Giants. Had hot dog and soda. Left ballpark and reversed bus route to home. Day cost $1.50. Highlight of game was line drive over second caught by Jackie Robinson, saving no hitter
@vijaynair2403
Жыл бұрын
I grew up in the early 90s. And I remember bleacher seats in RF at the old Stadium were like $18-$25. My cousin and I would go to 4-5 games on average every season.
@yell0wberry
Жыл бұрын
The Yankees in the early 90s certainly have plenty of seats to sit down at on that side of the field
@IAmJustSaying6
Жыл бұрын
Visited Fenway for the 1st time, in '21. Can't beat the Italian Sausage sandwiches.
@tylerrigdon6795
Жыл бұрын
Baseball is still relatively cheap. Certainly the cheapest of all four major American sports Of course the beers and food is outrageous but you can get a decent seat to any game on any day of the regular season for less than $20 and usually between $5-$15
@DrJohnnyJ
Жыл бұрын
Courtside 1970's Lakers to see Wilt, Jerry and Elgin: $10.25. Our tickets were in the 12th row: $8.00. Cheap seats: $2.50.
@ewanhopper4275
Жыл бұрын
Would just like to note that at the beginning of prohibition New York’s alcohol consumption actually went up
@ncexnyc4466
2 жыл бұрын
As a kid growing up in NYC during the early 60's I remember being able to get box seats at either Shea Stadium or Yankee Stadium for around $5. A Mickey Mantle model glove went for around $20. I visit Dick's and Academy Sports nowadays for fishing supplies and get sticker shock looking at the cost of today's bats and gloves.
@daltontannery3243
Жыл бұрын
Dude batting gloves are $20 a pair now a days
@noahpederson4734
Жыл бұрын
$1 in 1963 is $9.55 today, so about the same price relative to inflation
@yell0wberry
Жыл бұрын
I haven’t bought a professional baseball glove recently, but close to 20 years ago, I bought a professional level glove for the low price of $175, most folks who only play recreationally and throw their equipment at the bottom of the storage closet would buy their stuff at the now defunct sporting goods store called Modell‘s
@IAmJustSaying6
Жыл бұрын
No more Dick's Sporting Goods for me -- a woke company! (Golf Galaxy too)
@billbeliakoff5589
2 жыл бұрын
Just for laughs I checked ticket prices for the White Sox and saw the cheapest seats in the upper deck all the way down the foul lines cost $ 12.00, box seats behind home plate cost $71.00.
@thebaseballprofessor
2 жыл бұрын
Not terribly out of line with what tickets cost 100 years ago in NYC.
@billbeliakoff5589
2 жыл бұрын
@@thebaseballprofessor If you factor in what players get paid today it probably comes out cheaper.
@jamessveinsson6006
Жыл бұрын
And going to Wrigley Field bleachers I think during the 80s was six dollars
@yell0wberry
Жыл бұрын
I guess the narrator thinks that going to a ball game in NYC is an affordable situation, not even close. Before inflation shot up in mid June, this was still a very expensive thing to do, a family of four going to a baseball game, especially at Yankee stadium will spend no less than $100 easily. While Citifield is only slightly less, you will easily notice that stadiums are rarely ever at capacity, even most playoff games involving teams such as Tampa Bay rays or even the Kansas City Royals or Washington nationals when they were any good, there were still plenty of empty seats and playoff tickets available. I went to my very first playoff game at Yankee Stadium back in 1995 and was surprised to not only get tickets, but the line was relatively short because the Yankees were coming off of 13 straight seasons of playing losing baseball. The very next year, people were wrapped around the stadium camped outside the night before the ticket window opened. And in spite of this, there is no major league Park that plays a regular season game with the ball park filled to capacity, probably not even on opening day anymore. It’s all about NFL football these days, I’m not even sure if major-league baseball is even number three on the list. These days, I live not too far away from where the Miami Marlins play when on an average day, they may even have a paid attendance of over 8000 people with most of them there to see the Marlins opponents
@nancymilawski1048
Жыл бұрын
The Blue Jay's have had several sell outs this year, including opening day and July 1st (Canada Day).
@yell0wberry
Жыл бұрын
@@nancymilawski1048 From a baseball perspective, they’re the only action in all of Canada, MLB wants to bring baseball back to Montreal, that will come back to bite them in the butt , because although it may attract some folks, they’ll be back to 8000 people a game once again. The NFL must be getting it right because officially as of last week, the Cincinnati Bengals of all teams have sold out all their home dates for the upcoming season
@areizman
Жыл бұрын
Not sure where you are getting your $10 ticket number from. Unreserved grandstand cost $2 in the 70's at White Sox park. Bleacher tickets at Wrigley were around .50 in the late 60s.
@tzuten
Жыл бұрын
Meanwhile I attended a game tonight at Angels stadium.. A mini hardhat of nachos cost 18 bucks. A coke 5 bucks. Someone has to pay for these 30+ million a year contracts. It's insane.
@stevenmccart5455
Жыл бұрын
One hot dog , beer , bag of peanuts and an ice cream would cost a hell of a lot more than $8.00 today!!!
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