Breaking A Curse Gets Costly

Wrigley Field tickets for the Chicago Cubs’ first World Series appearance since 1945 won’t come cheap for those expecting to snap them up on the secondary market – and they’ll be only somewhat less expensive for fans of the Cleveland Indians – which haven’t won a championship since 1948.  

Standing-room only tickets for Game 3 Oct. 28 – the first Cubs home game – started at $1,705.99 on StubHub when Pollstar checked on Oct. 25 – the opening day of the best-of-seven World Series.

At Cleveland’s 

Should the series go seven games, remaining parking passes ranged from $400-$450. Oddly enough, parking passes at Wrigley Field for Games 3-5 ranged from a downright economical $33-$60. Major League Baseball set World Series ticket face-values from $83 to $750. But once the secondary market is factored in, CNN Money estimates an average ticket for games played in Cleveland to cost $3,900 – but for a deciding Game 7 Nov. 2, the average price is about $5,000 per ticket.

In Chicago, seats are harder to come by because many ticketholding fans aren’t selling. Games 3-5 at Wrigley Field are going for an average of $7,200. If the World Series plays all the way out, the payoff for some brokers could be the equivalent of a week of Super Bowls. TicketIQ founder and CEO Jesse Lawrence told CNN Money his company estimates the average asking price for tickets to the last four Super Bowls was $4,500. “We’ve never seen anything like this before. We may never see it again,” he said. 

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