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Post by longsuffering on Aug 31, 2020 17:38:34 GMT -5
The Red Sox and Braves used to play an exhibition game each year before interleague play for charity (the Jimmy Fund?) after the Braces moved, which was neat because you got to see NL players like Aaron and Mathews.
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Post by longsuffering on Aug 31, 2020 17:44:24 GMT -5
I can't remember what I had for lunch, but remember the Fenway prices from the '60s as: Bleachers, $1.00, Reserved grandstand $2.25 and box seats $3.00. The seats in the corner of right field that did not (still don't?) face home plate were less than the other reserved grandstand seats. The Sox offered several "Family Games" a year where the head of the family bought one full price reserved grandstand ticket and the rest of the family paid fifty cents for adjacent seats. My family snapped those tickets up early every year. I remember going to a game in '67 and seeing a group of women going through the turnstiles with buttons on their shirt that said: "Yaz sir, that's my baby!" I am quite certain that I paid $.75 for a bleacher seat in Fenway in September 1969. I also managed to sneak in 4 16oz cans of Schlitz! I originally remembered $.50 for the bleachers, but when $1.00 was quoted I assumed I was remembering the family day seat prices. Regarding Schlitz, in 1969 it was the equal of Budweiser, at least in underage drinking circles. There was also a real cheap brand named Schmidt's. If you had that you would cough when you pronounced it to make people think you had Schlitz.😊 |
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Aug 31, 2020 20:02:25 GMT -5
Bleacher seats were $1.00 in the early 1970’s up to 1976. In 1977 the Red Sox signed reliever Bill Campbell who had a fantastic year for the Twins in 1976. He went from making under $100K , as I recall, to signing for something like $700K with the Red Sox. I went to opening day 1977 and bleacher seats were $2.00. Someone in the bleachers brought a sign “Sell Campbell. Bring back $1.00 bleachers”
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Post by timholycross on Aug 31, 2020 20:26:54 GMT -5
Campbell got 5 years/1 million. That's 1 million total, not a million a year.
FYI, his last year on the Twins, he made $23K. I believe I made around 14K teaching high school that year. Different times.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Aug 31, 2020 20:57:40 GMT -5
Thanks for the correction. I recalled that he made a great deal more with the red sox but my starting point was way off.
Didn’t he want to stay with Minn but the Twins wouldn’t give him much of a raise?
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