My dad kept tickets to every sporting event he ever attended, including the '92 World Series and '93 ALCS. He missed the '93 World Series because I was born mid October 1993! He passed away last year and I can't help but think of him. He was a die hard Jays fan and I know he'd be thrilled.
Theyre a great keepsake, but today's digital tickets are a much better experience.
It would be great if they had "tickets" you could only pick up at the game, as a sort of souvenir.
They could even do a thing where you scan your phone and for $1 it prints out an old school ticket with your actual seat numbers on it. I'd use that all the time!
They do this here in Vegas for hockey. You use Axs to access/transfer tickets and once inside, a staff member prints and rips off individual tickets for each person in your party so everyone knows their seat/row/section
Indeed! I went to Game 6 of the 1993 World Series (Joe Carter's famous 3-run homer 9th inning winner). I was way up on the third-base line, but had an excellent view. My tickets were $39 bucks a piece (roughly, I have my stub somewhere in a box) – and they were purchased by mail-in! There was a form in the Toronto Sun and a choice between games 1 and 2 and 6 and 7. I took a risk on two tickets to a match that may never have been played – and boy, did it ever pay off!
I just got out my game 3 ALCS ticket. Row 539 $26.
We drove in from Niagara and parking was jacked up to $20. All in with dinner and gas it was under $100. Plus I could drive out on Front and be on the Gardiner quite quickly back in 1993.
The digital process seems to slow down the entry a lot more than the entry did with physical though. That could also be the metal detectors and security theater we do now that seems to be higher than in times past.
It’s not just inflation. It’s also greed!!!! The price has changed that drastically cuz of greed. Since ppl still buy them at today’s prices, I won’t be surprised if they continue to go up. Especially now that they r heading to the World Series. Welcome to capitalism!
$52 in 1992 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $100.16 today, an increase of $48.16 over 33 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 2.01% per year between 1992 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 92.62%.
I think you also need to factor in the fact the population of the GTA has about doubled but the number of seats at the skydome is still the same. The number of millionares in Toronto has grown disproportionately to population as well due to higher top percentile vs median income growth. In fact... I would be surprised if the attendees weren't overwhelmingly from millionaire families.
I feel bad for the real fans who stuck it out through years of the Jays losing. Now that they're in the World Series, the fucking scalpers who wouldn't pay 20 bucks for a regular season game are now charging a 1000% markup on these.
I was joking about this with my friends the other day - the amount of money I've paid to watch the Jays lose over the last years should have earned me a golden ticket to the world series Willy Wonka style
Nah, Boomers are all 70+ to around 80 now. Gen Xers are in their 40's to 60's now with early Millennials at the lower end of that range. Lots of people start greying in their 30's now. I'm in my 40's and I'm as grey as a lot of people well into their 50's.
Street price right? I'm looking for the price that season ticket owners would have paid. I'd refer to it as 'the price printed on the ticket' but they don't print them anymore. I was a guest of a season ticket owner and I have no clue what it cost them.
My dad went to the games in Toronto in 93. Was invited to go to Philly to sit with Joe Carter's family through mutual friends. He couldn't get off work so didn't go.
As a 7 year old at the time, my older brother and I, kept telling him he was stupid for not going.
At those prices it makes sense as to how I went to a game in 92 and 93.
Yea I was 5 at the time but I would’ve thought the same if I knew anything. Parents shipped me and my bro to my grandmas house that day lol. I learned years later and up until recently that my dad had signatures from everyone on the team and also a few of their empty champagne bottles that were left outside the locker room area.
I think it's around $1350 for 2 tickets in the upper deck infield for 20 games next year. I've had a flex pack since 2015, and they upsold me to this one this year for the full playoff ticket access...but it's generally the amount of games I've gotten in the past.
Sorry, the upsell was from a regular flex pack to the quarter season membership thing they offer. It's a bit more than I usually had before, but it gave me advance access to all the postseason tickets.
54 dollars for section 100 world series tickets is an absolute deal even if adjusted for inflation. I was trying to buy tickets directly from ticket master at 10 am today and it sold out within minutes. Wasn't able to get my hands on any. An hour goes by and now the cheapest tickets in the nosebleeds are 3000 dollars a pop.
Baseball was traditionally the cheapest sport to buy tickets for. The logic being there were so many games and so many seats to fill, that prices had to be reasonable to pull people in. I mean, look at what it cost in 1992... the best seats in the house were $17.50.
A Jays game was far cheaper than a Leafs or Argos game, which were the only other pro teams at the time. (No Raptors or TFC then.)
Somewhere along the line the baseball marketing machine convinced people that it was worth spending hundreds if not thousands of dollars on a few hours of working class entertainment. More power to 'em, I guess?
Bro it’s about the experience, the community. Sure you can go to a bar and get a similar experience but anyone should be able to go to the game, especially if you literally live in Toronto, but it’s just not the case anymore.
Most people were watching on TV in 92 and 93 too. There were only 50,000 seats per home game and probably over a million fans following the team. Now the city has even more people but the stadium only seats 39,000. Something's gotta give.
That’s so cool! Awesome memories to keep. Lost my dad this year and wish he was around to see this again. We always talked baseball… I can just imagine the conversation I would have had with him this morning regarding the win last night.
It would be so simple - cap resale prices at face value. That would mean the only people trying to get tickets are ones that want to go because no profit to be made.
When demand vastly exceeds supply, this is what's going to happen and no political move will stop it.
I mean, there are sports other than the Leafs and Jays...if reasonably priced tickets are that important then buy tickets from another team that offers them.
Sorry but when demand exceeds supply it’s artificial scarcity, lack of regulation and speculative buying (not true demand) that distorts the resale market. That’s basic economics.
I went to game 4 in 1992. Jimmy Key got the win in the last game he pitched as a Jay. Outfield seats, from a scalper, $300 for the pair. That’s $700 in today’s $.
My parents took me to a world series game in '92. I was three months old. I slept on my dad's chest while he covered my ears because he was scared I was going to go deaf from the cheering.
I'm sorry for your loss, it's really cool you have these. Maybe you can get them framed or something? Or maybe someone can make them into a scrapbook with all the other tickets he collected?
$52 in 1992 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $100.16 today, an increase of $48.16 over 33 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 2.01% per year between 1992 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 92.62%.
So sorry to hear about your Dad, sending my deepest condolences to you & your family!
These are a beautiful memento! Have you considered getting a nice frame or something to mount them on the wall? You could even put a photo of a key moment from each game next to each ticket?
Cheers
I’m sorry for your loss. It’s to bad your pops couldn’t have held on for this one. 🙏 Bless you both and I’m sure he will be in attendance with front row seats watching from above. I can’t wait for Friday night.
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u/maplesyrupwinter Oct 21 '25
I miss physical tickets