![]() The Cubs haven’t won a World Series title since 1908. That year, Ford saw the Cubs play for the first time. Ford, born in Aurora, Colorado, is an 83-year-old super Cubs fan who was diagnosed with terminal cancer, putting his life at risk as the Cubs have entered the World Series, a feat the team hasn’t accomplished since 1945, the Aurora Beacon-News reported. So many people died wishing the Cubs would win the World Series at Wrigley and you can't let this pass you by.The Chicago Cubs didn’t have the World Series start the way they probably wanted, losing 6-0 to the Cleveland Indians in Game 1 of the championship series.īut for many fans, the fact that the Cubs reached the World Series may be enough. "Tickets to Wrigley are three times as much and I asked myself if the experience is three times as cool," said Wilbeck, 38, who is willing to go as high as $20,000 for two Chicago at-home tickets. Such a bargain does not tempt Tom Wilbeck of Chicago. Popp said the average ticket price for Game 1 is about $1,000. In comparison, only about 2 per cent of the sales to Game 3 at Wrigley are coming from Ohio. Some Chicago fans apparently are going with Plan B and heading to Cleveland.Ĭameron Popp of StubHub said a quarter of the tickets being sold on the site for Game 1 in Cleveland on Tuesday are being paid for with credit cards associated with Illinois ZIP codes. "Maybe there's somebody looking for an experience versus a monetary gain." "I am a regular guy with a family and mortgage and these prices for tickets are kind of astronomical," Altig said. Hood, the coast of the Pacific Ocean and the fire station where he works. He placed an ad offering to show whoever gives him a ticket a tour that includes Mt. Jesse Altig, a firefighter in Portland, Oregon, who grew up watching Cubs games on television with his dad in the 1980s, also took to Craigslist. "If someone wants to make it a whole tour of California, we could do that," Coffman said. Not only that, but her sister owns a ski cabin near Lake Tahoe and would be willing to sweeten the offer. ![]() "Rental for a week is about $9,000," said Coffman, who grew up near Chicago. In Southern California, Annie Coffman posted on Craigslist an offer to exchange no fewer than two tickets for a week at her ski chalet near Big Bear Lake. ![]() That pent-up desire might explain why more than 2.6 million people - about the population of Chicago - signed up for a drawing for a chance to buy the few thousand tickets the Cubs are now selling themselves.įans with more creativity than luck or money are making some unusual pitches to pry tickets from the hands of their owners. How long? Well, the last time the Cubs were in the World Series, a ticket in the upper grandstand was $6. "People have waited so long for this," he said. But he said prices might climb because Cubs fans are proving to be reluctant to sell no matter how much money they're offered. Ticket brokers were being flooded with calls from fans looking for tickets and, as of Monday, they were willing to pay as much as $12,000, said Dan Makras of Classic Tickets in Chicago. And there are indications that Cubs fans, getting a look at what they'd pay at Wrigley versus Progressive, are buying two tickets: one for a plane and one for a game. World Series tickets cost a lot more in Cleveland, too - well above the $83 to $750 list price range that MLB provided for Progressive Field - but are not as expensive as those in Chicago. List prices for World Series tickets at Wrigley range from $85 to $565, according to Major League Baseball figures. Tickets to just get into the park and stand behind those with actual seats were going for more than $2,200 each. But there are lots of box seat tickets in the $5,000 to $10,000 range. Wrigley Field box seats on ticket-selling sites such as StubHub were $50,000 (all figures US) and up, with one seller asking $100,000 for a seat and another asking for just under $1 million. ![]() The euphoria from Saturday night's victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers gave way Monday to the realization that history doesn't come cheap. Fans hoping to see the Cubs play in the World Series for the first time since 1945 are finding a seat could cost them more than what their grandparents paid for their houses.
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