I think the same argument applies to full single-game tickets before the bar-coding days. Some were actually at the games, but it's likely that some were not. For some tickets in my collection, I'm reasonably sure that some full tickets were at the game, because a few years ago, I purchased a large group of tickets (via a small auction house) from someone who was a ticket-taker at games in the early to mid-70s. Some tickets were just stubs, but on some nights, he/she must have had a single-hole puncher available for use, because a lot of tickets had punches in them. (Don't get me started about how punched tickets are automatically be rendered grades much, much lower than unpunched tickets even if they don't affect the beauty of the ticket--that would be a topic for a completely different thread!!)
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