Lawmakers Score (World Series) Ticket Deal

Source: Wall Street Journal

Tickets for Wednesday's World Series game are nearly impossible to come by at face value. But that isn't the case if you are a member of Congress or one of their aides.

Federal lawmakers and people who work for them have gotten their hands on scores of tickets to the sold-out World Series games this year between the New York Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies courtesy of a perk not available to the public.

Major League Baseball and the teams sell a limited number of prime seats to lawmakers and congressional aides at face value, often hundreds of dollars less than the going rate.

The league has sold about 75 World Series tickets to a total of 15 lawmakers or aides in the past week, according to Pat Courtney, a spokesman for Major League Baseball. Mr. Courtney declined to identify which lawmakers and aides sought the tickets.

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Check it out. Tim Holden a PA Representative, bought a ticket for $225 for game 3, while the average Joe would have to pay "an average of about $750 per ticket from online ticket brokers."

Scored with your comment. :crazy:

No, that is not a typo.