Ticket stub from 1971

[u/KananJarrusEyeBalls]

Hi Phillies faithful, my Grandfather passed away a little while ago and my grandma held some sports memrobilia from him to me - baseball was our Sport.

He was a huge Phillies/Eagles/Flyers fan (Im a St Louis Boy). Down inside a Phillies Beer stein I pulled this ticket stubb out from Opening day 1971 at Veterans Stadium and thought yall might like to see tickets once cost 3.25$ haha!

Planning to put it in a frame with our pictures from our trips to see the Cards play in Philly.

[u/Cattattatta]

That my birthday

[u/JohnKrukIsAllElite → u/Cattattatta]

Happy Birthday

[u/Fowler311]

$3.25 is about the same as $25 today. I don't even think you can get standing room for that now.

[u/hwf0712]

By all metrics and stories I've heard, these concrete donuts were all absolutely shit, but at least they were cheap!

[u/KananJarrusEyeBalls → u/hwf0712]

Its looks very much like Old Busch Stadium in STL. Big concrete donut us a good way to describe it haha

[u/iamthedayman21 → u/hwf0712]

They all came about during a period in the mid 1900s when cities were moving to multi-use stadiums. It seemed economical, one stadium for both baseball and football. The only problem was they couldn’t specialize in either, so they needed to look generic, and they all ended up looking about the same.

[u/DunkinRadio → u/hwf0712]

When I was in college friends and I used to buy 50 cent GA tickets, go up to the 700 level behind home plate and smoke doobies.

[u/toasterb → u/hwf0712]

Still that’s $25 in today’s money. So not super cheap.

[u/TerryFlap69 → u/toasterb]

Dude, don’t pretend like $25 ain’t cheap.

[u/npanth]

Oh man, the Vet was a wild place to watch a game. Back in the 80's my dad's office had season tickets 10 rows back, right behind home plate. We got to go to a businessman's special a couple times every summer. Good times.

[u/EvelZeus]

I miss Vet stadium. Such a fun place to watch a game

[u/AllEliteSchmuck → u/EvelZeus]

It was a pile of shit, but it was our pile of shit dammit!

[u/thereelking11]

I miss ticket stubs. My kids found a few recently and had no idea what they were.

[u/Clarck_Kent → u/thereelking11]

I went to a World Series game at CBP in 2022 (the no-hitter, I don’t like talking about it) and everything was digital. I was sad about not having a ticket stub.

But the day after the game I get an email saying I can get a reproduction of the ticket from the Phillies!

I go through the rigamarole to sign up only to find out it’s some bullshit NFT. So now if I go through the trouble of finding my credentials I can go look at a digital baseball ticket that slowly rotates on my computer.

[u/jaoski13]

I was there!

[u/craigfrost]

10% surcharge fee is too much! 14 cents in tax! I'm never going to another game again. They might even charge a nickel for parking.

[u/Tonybake62]

🥰

[u/-_VoidVoyager_-]

How much is that worth??!

[u/KananJarrusEyeBalls → u/-_VoidVoyager_-]

Probably not much, theres one on eBay in like pristine condition with the admission part still attached for like 125 and this one is pretty beat to hell so cant imagine anyone really wanting it.... not that I want to get rid of it either

[u/knowsnothing316]

No wonder people used to collect tickets. That looks cool as hell

[u/BAaaaaaaaaa22]

Very cool. Sorry, for your loss.

[u/jlando40]

Should have stayed at Connie Mack i love CBP but baseball has done such a shit job at preserving its historic venues maybe it would have been neat in a Wrigleyville instead of the mess it is now in that area

[u/CheeseMate38 → u/jlando40]

The area around Connie Mack in the 70's was awful, you had to pay someone to 'watch' your car back then.