| Red Sox fans have already bought more than | | | | Red Sox fans have sold out 226 consecutive |
| two million tickets for the upcoming 2006 home | | | | regular-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 to | | | | record 2,847,888 tickets in 2005. The club has |
| break last year's record-setting ticket sales. There | | | | also established attendance records each of the |
| are many other examples of rising ticket sales in | | | | past six seasons. |
| baseball, and now, with the advent of the World | | | | Sales for full season tickets to Nationals games in |
| Baseball Classic, baseball ticket sales should see | | | | 2005 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 through | | | | for the 2005 season, to be played out at the RFK |
| the 28-29 January weekend, when tickets for | | | | Stadium in Washington D.C. |
| most single games went on sale. Through the | | | | Using an average ticket price of $22 ($1,682.00) |
| same dates in 2005, 2,079,909 tickets were sold | | | | for a full season package, the projected income |
| out. The club hopes to sell more than 2.8 million | | | | generated would be $26,730,000. Partial packages |
| tickets in 2006, which means several hundred | | | | went on sale on January 1, 2005, after the |
| thousand tickets are still available for sale for | | | | seating assignments for full package sales were |
| most games. | | | | completed. |