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The last time a World Series was played in D.C., tickets cost less than $7. Yes, you read that right
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/10/25/last-time-world-series-was-played-dc-tickets-cost-less-than/
Franklin D. Roosevelt prepares to throw the ceremonial first pitch before Game 3 of the 1933 World Series. (File/AP)
By Ronald G. Shafer
Oct. 25, 2019 at 7:00 a.m. EDT
“Nattily attired ticket sharks” lined 14th Street peddling tickets for the World Series games in Washington, “and the prices are high with these high-pressure salesmen.”
That’s what The Washington Post reported in 1933, the last time a Washington team played in the Fall Classic, and the face price of tickets ranged from $3.30 to $6.60 a seat. On Friday night, the current team will play its first World Series home game in franchise history against the Houston Astros. Seats are much pricier than $6.60. The modern-day ticket sharks on Stub Hub are demanding more than $1,000 for standing room only.
Should a die-hard Nationals fan pay whatever it takes to go to the World Series?
Local excitement was sky-high in 1933. At least two Senate hearings were postponed so senators and witnesses could attend the games, which were all played during the day. A local radio station arranged for a dozen men on death row at the D.C. jail to hear the games on the radio. The Gayety Theater announced a special burlesque show “The Pennant Winners,” featuring “the Ladies of the Night” ballet “dancers.”
After the first two games in New York, rookie president Franklin D. Roosevelt was poised to throw out the first ball in Washington. Cabinet members had reserved box seats at Griffith Stadium. Thousands of people entered The Post’s “unique baseball contest” offering nine box seats to whomever could best pick the inning-to-inning outcome of the first game in New York’s Polo Grounds against the National League champs New York Giants. The Senators — nicknamed the Nats — had won the American League pennant.
The Giants won that first game behind future Hall of Fame pitcher Carl Hubbell. Washington also lost the second game in New York, but that didn’t dim hometown hopes. Upon returning to D.C. by train, the team was “greeted by throngs at Union Station last night like conquering heroes rather than like beaten” losers, The Post reported.
“Atta, boy, Joe,” the fans shouted to the Nats’ 26-year-old player/manager Joe Cronin, a shortstop.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt prepares to throw the ceremonial first pitch before Game 3 of the 1933 World Series. (File/AP)
By Ronald G. Shafer
Oct. 25, 2019 at 7:00 a.m. EDT
“Nattily attired ticket sharks” lined 14th Street peddling tickets for the World Series games in Washington, “and the prices are high with these high-pressure salesmen.”
That’s what The Washington Post reported in 1933, the last time a Washington team played in the Fall Classic, and the face price of tickets ranged from $3.30 to $6.60 a seat. On Friday night, the current team will play its first World Series home game in franchise history against the Houston Astros. Seats are much pricier than $6.60. The modern-day ticket sharks on Stub Hub are demanding more than $1,000 for standing room only.
Should a die-hard Nationals fan pay whatever it takes to go to the World Series?
Local excitement was sky-high in 1933. At least two Senate hearings were postponed so senators and witnesses could attend the games, which were all played during the day. A local radio station arranged for a dozen men on death row at the D.C. jail to hear the games on the radio. The Gayety Theater announced a special burlesque show “The Pennant Winners,” featuring “the Ladies of the Night” ballet “dancers.”
After the first two games in New York, rookie president Franklin D. Roosevelt was poised to throw out the first ball in Washington. Cabinet members had reserved box seats at Griffith Stadium. Thousands of people entered The Post’s “unique baseball contest” offering nine box seats to whomever could best pick the inning-to-inning outcome of the first game in New York’s Polo Grounds against the National League champs New York Giants. The Senators — nicknamed the Nats — had won the American League pennant.
The Giants won that first game behind future Hall of Fame pitcher Carl Hubbell. Washington also lost the second game in New York, but that didn’t dim hometown hopes. Upon returning to D.C. by train, the team was “greeted by throngs at Union Station last night like conquering heroes rather than like beaten” losers, The Post reported.
“Atta, boy, Joe,” the fans shouted to the Nats’ 26-year-old player/manager Joe Cronin, a shortstop.
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Kinda cool!
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