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A couple years ago I was blissfully unaware of ticket stubs. Now I always saved my own stubs but did not buy anyone else's . Then I posted a 500 HR autograph collection and a board member suggested that a stub from a HR game would look nice mounted next to the autographed card. And I was introduced to ticket collecting. Now I collect 500 HR related stubs and 3000 hit related stubs. Arod was the first player I was able to find a first hit 3000th hit and last hit stubs for. I recently got them signed and will frame them up shortly.
So my question for this thread is I see many collectors going after first game stubs. Which are nice ..but I tend to prefer first hit stubs which are not always first game. In Arod' s case first hit was second game. Because milestones like 3000 hits start with the first hit 500 HR start with homer number 1 etc. Anyone else collect firsts? |
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Many collectors do, in fact, collect firsts. This is a very common collecting theme. First hit, first HR, first strikeout, first win, first game at a baseball stadium, etc., etc., etc. The same is true of lasts, IMHO. That's what's so fun about collecting tickets; there are more than enough themes to chase! ![]() ![]() |
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I know that at Dodgers Stadium there is a separate corporate level where the team has (had? It's been a while) business offices and private stadium seating. I was invited on a charity thing with Don Newcombe one year and that is where we were seated. No ticket, just admission to the area via a pass we wore. Padded seats, too, which was a nice change. Perhaps that's where they stash the pass-holders.
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I think the point is that for the most part a pass to either a major leauge park or parks. Required the pass holder to go to some form of ticket window. (Will call press gate etc.) And there he would receive his tickets / stubs. On a couple of occasions I was walked up to the Phillies will call desk by a former player who had a relationship with my workplace. There the person said step through the gate and handed me stubs for the seats we had ( right behind home plate with Philly wives etc.)
At current Yankee Stadium I often use a premium parking pass so I go in the gate that press and VIP's go in. There they give name and are handed tickets or lanyards so you know where your seats are. The idea that a Pass good for all National leauge parks for 1938 was used to attend both of Vandemeer's no hit games is a stretch at best. And my e xperiance not my opinion tells me that. |
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Amen, its hard to get the guys who sell passes to believe this.
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When I was younger, I used to walk around the ballpark after the game looking for stubs. I haven't done that for years but I do occasionally note the odd stub after a game.
My general gut feeling is that post-game discarded tickets are harder to find than they used to be - partially because there's more of an awareness of tickets as potential collectibles, and there's also the proliferation of print-at-home tickets, making "real" stubs (box office and season ticket style) scarcer. Interestingly, I did find a discarded ticket stub after Game 4 of the 2015 World Series. This is how I found it: ![]() (Photo taken October 31, 2015. © Gary Dunaier. Link to upload on Flickr.com: here.) Unfortunately, once I picked it up I found it was soaked in beer, rendering it uncollectible... so I left it behind. ![]()
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