CHEAP BASEBALL TICKETS

April is the perfect month to find cheap baseball tickets. 

Some of the most expensive baseball tickets of the year are opening day tickets due to all the hype and marketing.  Baseball teams play 162 games a year, 81 home games and the only reason the opening day game is priced higher is because some fans want to be at the first game of the season.  Not too many people will pay a premium to see the second, third or fourth game of the season.  Here is where you can work the system to your advantage.  Games in April especially against other baseball teams are not a very good baseball team have tickets that are priced under face price. 

Even for a team like the New York Mets which just built a new stadium, Citi Field, I can buy tickets for $6, $7, $9.  These are not the best seats, but they are decent upper levels that get me and my family in to the new ballpark for less than the price of a movie.

2009 Baseball Opening Day Games

The 2009 Major League Baseball season gets officially underway tonight as the 2008 World Champion Philadelphia Phillies host the Atlanta Braves.  A full slate of opening games are scheduled for Monday.  Opening day game tickets are typically the most expensive baseball games of the entire series as are baseball games involving the Red Sox and Yankees.

The New York Mets have placed tickets onsale for the April and May 2009 Regular Season games at the new Citi Field beginning today.  The New York Yankees are taking registrations for the opportunitiy to buy tickets to the 2009 regular season games at the New Yankee Stadium.

The 2008 World Series Champions Philadelphia Phillies will put tickets to their 2009 games at Citizens Bank Park onsale to the general public beginning Febraury 19th.  The Phillies are holding special lotteries for Opening Night, Mets and Red Sox tickets.

Tickets for regular season games for the Chicago White Sox (the President’s favorite team) and the Houston Astros go on sale this weekend.

The Chicago Cubs have announced that tickets to their 2009 games will go on sale starting February 20.

The Boston Red Sox will put tickets for their entire 2009 home schedule on sale to fans on Saturday, January 24th.  This is the best opportunity for Red Sox fans to purchase tickets for highly sought after ducats for games against the Yankees, Mets and other interleague games.

The New York Yankees will pu 2009 spring training tickets for Legend’s Field on sale to the general public on January 9th.   The New York Mets have select regular season ticket packages onsale January 9th.  The Baltimore Orioles have announced that regular season tickets for 2009 will go on sale next week including the home opener versus the New York Yankees.

The New York Yankees have announced a special ticket promotion for its New Yankee Stadium.  The Yankees will open their new ballpark with an exhibition series versus the National League’s Chicago Cubs April 3rd and 4th with a special 25 cent bleacher seat promotion.  The 25 cent bleacher seat will match the bleacher price of seats when the Yankees opening the original Yankee Stadium in 1923.  Yankees season ticket holders will be able to recieve the 25 cent bleacher seats for free with any remaining bleacher going on sale on a date to be announced.

The Philadelphia Phillies are one win away from their second ever World Series Championship, their only series win coming in 1980.   The Phillies lead the Tampa Bay Rays three games to one.

Philadelphia has not had a professional sports team win its league title since the Philadelphia 76′ers swept the Los Angeles Lakers in 1983.

Game Five is scheduled for tonight at Citizen’s Bank Park with Cole Hamels pitching for the Phillies and this Game Five is a very hot ticket as fans look to be part of baseball, World Series and Philadelphia history.

If the Tampa Bay Rays can start hitting and find a way to defeat the Phillies and their ace, the Rays will force Game Six back at Tropicana Field.

The 2008 Major League Baseball season is not even over yet, but the St. Louis Cardinals announced today that they are raising 2009 ticket prices for their season ticket holders.  The Cardinals decided not to raise prices on 70% of New Busch Stadium citing the recent economic news.  On average, 2009 Cardinals season ticket prices will rise 1.6%. The Cardinals will play host to the MLB All-Star Game in July 2009.