| Collecting tickets is an exciting and | | | | two homerun races drove up the demand, |
| rewarding area of collecting. Collectors | | | | interest and the price of tickets in general |
| research tickets to enhance the value. | | | | as more collectors begin collecting tickets. |
| Tickets are issued for sports events, movies, | | | | Collecting tickets is popular but still has |
| music concerts, dances, museums and in cities | | | | room for growth as people realize the fun and |
| and countries throughout the world. | | | | beauty of tickets. |
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| Tickets help promoters keep track of | | | | Tickets Are Scarce |
| attendance, receipts and to comply with tax | | | | |
| and safety laws. Tickets come in different | | | | Ticket stubs are connected to the game. It is |
| shapes, sizes and colors; from detailed | | | | something tangible left after the game is a |
| beautiful artist drawings to plain computer | | | | memory. Ticket stubs are usually more |
| generated tickets. Many tickets have photos | | | | valuable then programs as tickets (except |
| of athletes, stadiums, team logos, date, game | | | | general admission) list the date of the game, |
| number, city, seat location and title of | | | | while a program could be for a series of |
| event. All of these factors contribute to the | | | | games. |
| value of a ticket. Many stadiums like the | | | | |
| Fleet Center in Boston are scanning tickets | | | | Tickets are scarce and limited to seating |
| to Bruins and Celtics games return the full | | | | capacity. The scarceness of ticket stubs |
| ticket to the fans for safe keeping. | | | | translates to money value. Even a stub from |
| | | | the 1952 Boston Braves season is scarce. |
| Concert ticket stubs are wonderful | | | | Total attendance for the Boston Braves 1952 |
| collectibles. Like show flyers, handbills, | | | | was about 250,000 people. How many of those |
| posters, programs and other rock memorabilia, | | | | 250,000 people saved a ticket? Two thousand? |
| old tickets are colorful, fun and mark | | | | How many tickets exist today? Two hundred? |
| musical moments in our culture. Some people | | | | Twenty? The Red Sox out draw that now in a |
| pasted them into scrapbooks as a memento | | | | week. Scarcity adds value to the price of a |
| after a favorite concert. Others discarded | | | | ticket stub. When you add the historical |
| them as soon as the show was over. Of course | | | | significance of event the value can really |
| these two acts help determine how hard the | | | | jump. |
| ticket is to find today. | | | | |
| | | | No Accurate Price Guide For Tickets |
| There are many types of ticket collectors. | | | | |
| Music star tickets are in demand such as | | | | The value of a ticket is harder than a card |
| Elvis, The Beatles, Frank Sinartra, and | | | | to figure out. There are publications that |
| others. | | | | list prices for World Series, All-Star and |
| | | | Super Bowl Tickets but these guides are |
| Other areas of ticket collecting are: | | | | general pricing tickets according to decade. |
| Presidential Elections, | | | | For example, every ten years older in age a |
| Foreign, railroads, Gambling and | | | | ticket may go up $25 in value. A 1960's World |
| movie tickets. | | | | Series Ticket is $125, a 1950Ã-s ticket is |
| | | | $150, a 1940"s ticket is $175 and so on. |
| Collecting Sports Tickets | | | | |
| | | | For most tickets there is no price guide. |
| All sports basketball, football, hockey, | | | | Tickets are less collected, researched and |
| boxing, Olympic, tennis and wrestling issue | | | | sold than cards. Most prices are gathered by |
| tickets. Sports tickets are issued at the | | | | tracking ticket sales in hobby advertisements |
| major, minor and the armature level. Many | | | | and auctions, which are incomplete and out |
| ticket collectors base their area of interest | | | | dated given the sudden changes in the market |
| on a theme such as, city, team, player, or | | | | place. |
| event. Others collect All-Star, | | | | |
| Play-Off, World Series, pennant clinching, | | | | Ticket prices are varied and full of gaps. It |
| Opening Day, championship regular season | | | | will take the new collector time and effort |
| games and first games or last game of a team. | | | | to find their bearings. New tickets from this |
| Also in demand are tickets from | | | | year All-Star, World Series or Super Bowl are |
| record-breaking games like Clemens twenty | | | | expensive as people pay $100-$3,000 to attend |
| strikeouts, Ted Williams batting .406, | | | | the event and often keep the ticket. Tickets |
| commemorative tickets issued by teams to mark | | | | stubs from these recent events sell for about |
| special events, and games were players reach | | | | $150 a ticket stub. Even these stubs are |
| milestones like 500 home runs, 3,000 hits or | | | | worth the price considering the scarcity, |
| strikeouts, 300 wins, four homeruns in one | | | | beauty and significance. |
| game or no-hitters. | | | | |
| | | | New collectors need to learn all they can |
| In 1998, when Mark McGwire was chasing Roger | | | | about ticket collecting. A related field is |
| Maris 61 homerun record collectors were hot | | | | season ticket passes, press passes and |
| chasing tickets from every game McGwire hit a | | | | lifetime passes which are rare and given to |
| homerun. This happened again in 2001, when | | | | ex ball players and executives. |
| Barry Bonds broke the homerun record. These | | | | |