Step 1: Buy World Series tickets; Step 2: Sell them on the secondary market for a huge markup; Step 3: Quickly call the stadium ticket office and report the now-sold tickets stolen; Step 4: Get the tickets you sold voided, and receive fresh new tickets. Step 5: Catch all kinds of hell from the guy […]

Does the home crowd cheer their team on to victory?

At least that’s what KTVU’s Lloyd LaCuesta believes he has discovered: KTVU’s Lloyd La Cuesta came up with a letter from Bud Selig to Lew Wolff stating: “I have decided that in the event you are not able to promptly assure the implementation of the desired park in Fremont, you may begin to discuss a […]

The NYT’s Ben Shpigel took a tour of Citi Field, and comes away pretty impressed. This passage is telling, though: Before and during construction, Wilpon visited several of the newer ballparks around the majors because he wanted to see which elements to incorporate. He said PNC Park was his favorite and considered Citi Field a […]

Now that A’s owner Lew Wolff has, at least for now, shelved the idea of building his new ballpark village and just wants a park, he’s getting flexible about the location: Here’s a possible game changer – the Oakland A’s will sit down this week with BART officials to discuss moving the team’s proposed Fremont […]

I had a great uncle named Harry Dorfman who had season tickets for the Detroit Tigers going back to the 1940s, so when I was a kid we were always right behind home plate. My parents tell me that I went to my first game in Tiger Stadium on the Fourth of July, 1978, but […]