bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton) (10/19/85)
The answer to this question is quite simple. The price. The leagues decided in advance what price would be charged for tickets. The league decided that since scalpers were getting so much for tickets, they might as well charge that much and scare away a few people. Reserved seats were $36 for good seats (almost all held by season holders) to $26 for bench. KC has a nice park, but Toronto's park isn't that great, since the team is young and all they could afford when they started was to rearrange a football stadium. Someday the domed stadium will go up. Anyway, there are only about 25,000 half-decent seats in the park. The remaining 20,000 seats are general admission seats in the football part. (A seat on the 55 yard line that would cost a fortune for football is bleachers for baseball and normally draped in black and vacant so that batters have a better background to see against. So these seats which normally can be had for $2 were $19 for playoffs and $26 for World Series. The view's better on TV, if not the atmosphere and temperature, so no sellout. My mother has seasons, and she had to pay $416 to get her pair of seats for the 4 World Series games. Sadly, she's getting her money back. -- Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont. (519) 884-7473