Yankees Offering 1923 Ticket Prices for Exhibition Games

(Zell's Pinstripe Blog)

The first two games at the new Yankee Stadium will be exhibition games. The Yanks and Cubs will play each other in a two game set on April 3 and 4. The cool part about it is that you can buy tickets for the game at the same prices that it would have cost you back in 1923, which is the year the stadium first opened. I think this is a great idea. We all know how much tickets can cost these days, so it’s a nice break. It would also be nice to get a sneak peek inside the stadium before the start of the 2009 regular season.

from the Yankees Official Website:

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Full-season ticket licensees will receive complimentary tickets for the first exhibition games. Partial-plan holders will receive the first opportunity to purchase tickets thereafter, via a pre-sale (restrictions apply).

For the inaugural exhibition contests, Bleacher tickets will be priced at 25 cents, and Grandstand tickets will be priced at $1.10 — the same prices they were when Babe Ruth christened the new building on April 18, 1923, slugging a third-inning home run off Boston’s Howard Ehmke.

The Yankees said tickets on the Terrace Level will cost between $20 and $35, tickets on the Main Level will be between $20 and $45, and tickets on the Field Level will range from $45 to $50.

Individual-game ticket prices will not exceed $50 for either game, the club said. Remaining tickets, subject to availability, will go on sale to the general public at a date to be determined in the future.

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Aaron Boone’s 2003 ALCS walk-off HR voted Yankee Stadium’s best moment 

I have to say..even though the Yankees didn’t win the World Series that year, that was probably my favorite Yankee moment ever. Tim Wakefield walking off the mound with his head down, while Boone lifts up his arms knowing he just won the game for the Yanks. It was priceless.

Boone’s thought’s on it…

“It’s one of those memories for me that is very foggy and hazy,” Boone said recently. “There are things in your life that you can picture and remember vividly. Certainly, that is not one of them. I find out more from watching the clip and see my reaction. It was pretty neat.”

“It was an unbelievable feeling of joy, of relief,” Boone said. “It was an amazing time.”