Collecting tickets is an exciting and rewarding area of collecting. Collectors research tickets to enhance the value. Tickets are issued for sports events, movies, music concerts, dances, museums and in cities and countries throughout the world.

Tickets help promoters keep track of attendance, receipts and to comply with tax and safety laws. Tickets come in different shapes, sizes and colors; from detailed beautiful artist drawings to plain computer generated tickets. Many tickets have photos of athletes, stadiums, team logos, date, game number, city, seat location and title of event. All of these factors contribute to the value of a ticket. Many stadiums like the Fleet Center in Boston are scanning tickets to Bruins and Celtics games return the full ticket to the fans for safe keeping.



Concert ticket stubs are wonderful collectibles. Like show flyers, handbills, posters, programs and other rock memorabilia, old tickets are colorful, fun and mark musical moments in our culture. Some people pasted them into scrapbooks as a memento after a favorite concert. Others discarded them as soon as the show was over. Of course these two acts help determine how hard the ticket is to find today.

There are many types of ticket collectors. Music star tickets are in demand such as Elvis, The Beatles, Frank Sinartra, and others.



Other areas of ticket collecting are:

Presidential Elections,

Foreign, railroads,

Gambling and movie tickets.



Collecting Sports Tickets

All sports basketball, football, hockey, boxing, Olympic, tennis and wrestling issue tickets. Sports tickets are issued at the major, minor and the armature level. Many ticket collectors base their area of interest on a theme such as, city, team, player, or event.

Others collect All-Star, Play-Off, World Series, pennant clinching, Opening Day, championship regular season games and first games or last game of a team. Also in demand are tickets from record-breaking games like Clemens twenty strikeouts, Ted Williams batting .406, commemorative tickets issued by teams to mark special events, and games were players reach milestones like 500 home runs, 3,000 hits or strikeouts, 300 wins, four homeruns in one game or no-hitters.

In 1998, when Mark McGwire was chasing Roger Maris 61 homerun record collectors were hot chasing tickets from every game McGwire hit a homerun. This happened again in 2001, when Barry Bonds broke the homerun record. These two homerun races drove up the demand, interest and the price of tickets in general as more collectors begin collecting tickets. Collecting tickets is popular but still has room for growth as people realize the fun and beauty of tickets.



Tickets Are Scarce

Ticket stubs are connected to the game. It is something tangible left after the game is a memory. Ticket stubs are usually more valuable then programs as tickets (except general admission) list the date of the game, while a program could be for a series of games.

Tickets are scarce and limited to seating capacity. The scarceness of ticket stubs translates to money value. Even a stub from the 1952 Boston Braves season is scarce. Total attendance for the Boston Braves 1952 was about 250,000 people. How many of those 250,000 people saved a ticket? Two thousand? How many tickets exist today? Two hundred? Twenty? The Red Sox out draw that now in a week. Scarcity adds value to the price of a ticket stub. When you add the historical significance of event the value can really jump.



No Accurate Price Guide For Tickets

The value of a ticket is harder than a card to figure out. There are publications that list prices for World Series, All-Star and Super Bowl Tickets but these guides are general pricing tickets according to decade. For example, every ten years older in age a ticket may go up $25 in value. A 1960's World Series Ticket is $125, a 1950Õs ticket is $150, a 1940"s ticket is $175 and so on.

For most tickets there is no price guide. Tickets are less collected, researched and sold than cards. Most prices are gathered by tracking ticket sales in hobby advertisements and auctions, which are incomplete and out dated given the sudden changes in the market place.

Ticket prices are varied and full of gaps. It will take the new collector time and effort to find their bearings. New tickets from this year All-Star, World Series or Super Bowl are expensive as people pay $100-$3,000 to attend the event and often keep the ticket. Tickets stubs from these recent events sell for about $150 a ticket stub. Even these stubs are worth the price considering the scarcity, beauty and significance.

New collectors need to learn all they can about ticket collecting. A related field is season ticket passes, press passes and lifetime passes which are rare and given to ex ball players and executives.



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