Sticker Shock: Box Seat at Yankee Stadium Costs 1029% More Than in 1967

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Biz of Baseball: Brown: Box Seat at Yankee Stadium Costs 1029% More Than in ‘67
Published 3/15/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Biz of Baseball: Brown: Box Seat at Yankee Stadium Costs 1029% More Than in ‘67 Yea...but just think what Thad Tillotson would cost today! To place this in perspective, using the Consumer Price Index, $3.50 in 1967 would be worth $22.14 in 2007 dollars. That means that the cost of a box seat at Yankee Stadium has risen 1029 percent since 1967, with inflation accounted for. Other notes of interest… --The longest stretch without an increase was from 1968-1975 where the price remained $4.00 --In the last decade alone, the cost of a box seat has increased 332 percent, ...

Brown: With Inflation Factor Yanks Ticket Cost 1029% More Than in '67
Published 3/15/2008 by Steve Lombardi at WasWatching.com
Maury Brown, in The Biz of Baseball, follows up on the Yankees ticket prices story. (Hat tip to BaseballThinkFactory.org .) The highlights: + The longest stretch without an increase was from 1968-1975 where the price remained $4.00 + In the last decade alone, the cost of a box seat has increased 332 percent, accounting for inflation. + The cost of a ticket in 1987 ($10) was less than what a ticket cost in 1967, when accounting for inflation ($12.28) + From 1967 to 1994 (27 years), the cost for a box seat was under $20. + ...

Baseball Today: Monday, March 17
Published 3/17/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo SoxBlog
... I DON'T SEE ANY OF THESE SEATS GOING EMPTY, THOUGH: The Biz of Baseball points out that a box seat which cost $3.50 at Yankee Stadium in 1967 is now going for $250, even though $3.50 in 2007 dollars is only $22.14. That's an inflation rate of 1,029%. ...

An Unlikely Guest in the House that Ruth Built
Published 3/17/2008 by Wayne G. McDonnell, Jr. at The Biz of Hockey :: Business of Sports Network
... initiative that involves an Original Six hockey club, the House that Ruth Built and an outdoor hockey game. The National Hockey League is in the process of revisiting the immensely popular outdoor hockey games by conducting conversations with the New York Rangers and historic Yankee Stadium about the possibility of hosting a Winter Classic on New Year’s Day in 2009. This event would be the final sporting contest ever held at baseball’s version of the Sistine Chapel. (See The Biz of Baseball article on ticket prices at Yankee Stadium) Without hesitation, ...

1,029 percent? Now that’s inflation
Published 3/21/2008 by Peter Abraham at The LoHud Yankees Blog
Maury Brown, who writes on the Business of Sports Network, looked at the cost of box seats at Yankee Stadium over the years and found they have risen 1,029 percent since 1967. Get this: a box seat at Yankee Stadium in 1967 cost $3.50. Just wait ’til next year.

Get the Feeling You’re Being Watched? Maury Brown’s Favorite Stops On the Web
Published 3/23/2008 by maury at Maury Brown's Biz of Sports
I either got one heck of a compliment, or I am officially the poster child for OCD. Rob Neyer was talking of an article by my Baseball Prospectus colleague and newly found friend, Rany Jazayerli on, you guessed it, the Royals. Rany is going over 25 reasons why the Royals will be better next season, and when he got to Reason #10: The Money, he contacted me for some data for the article. Yes, I’m digressing here, but on Monday, Neyer wrote on his ESPN blog: Rany’s finally found his destiny, writing regularly and lengthily about his favorite ...