Baseball Ticket Sales

Red Sox fans have already bought more thanRed Sox fans have sold out 226 consecutive
two million tickets for the upcoming 2006 homeregular-season games, the second-longest streak
schedule at "America's Most Beloved Ballpark",in Major League Baseball history. The team sold a
Fenway Park, and Boston is well on its way torecord 2,847,888 tickets in 2005. The club has
break last year's record-setting ticket sales. Therealso established attendance records each of the
are many other examples of rising ticket sales inpast six seasons.
baseball, and now, with the advent of the WorldSales for full season tickets to Nationals games in
Baseball Classic, baseball ticket sales should see2005 came to 15,000 requests. Deposits for
another rise in popularity.nearly 15,000 full season packages were accepted
Red Sox reportedly sold 2,135,540 tickets throughfor the 2005 season, to be played out at the RFK
the 28-29 January weekend, when tickets forStadium in Washington D.C.
most single games went on sale. Through theUsing an average ticket price of $22 ($1,682.00)
same dates in 2005, 2,079,909 tickets were soldfor a full season package, the projected income
out. The club hopes to sell more than 2.8 milliongenerated would be $26,730,000. Partial packages
tickets in 2006, which means several hundredwent on sale on January 1, 2005, after the
thousand tickets are still available for sale forseating assignments for full package sales were
most games.completed.