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