Great Tips For Buying Yankees Tickets - By Al Terry
New York Yankees’ baseball tickets are always at a
premium, especially
when the games are played at home at the
Yankee Stadium. Even for the away games, the Yankees baseball
tickets are mostly all sold out, as the fans of the opponents
would love to see them lose. The New York Yankees are a team
everyone loves to hate! Yankees baseball tickets are very
difficult to procure, whether during the season or for the
postseason games. These tickets are purchased months before the
games, as soon as the schedules are announced.
Yankees baseball tickets can be purchased from the venues where
the games are to be played. When completely sold out, these
tickets can be procured through the services of the ticket
brokers. These brokers are licensed brokers, and members of the
National Association of Ticket Brokers. The member brokers are
bound by a code of conduct and are very fair in their dealings
with their patrons.
Many people do try to procure their Yankees baseball tickets
from other dubious sources. These are the re-sale forums; the
auction sites, such as eBay; as well as the many scalpers who
are found around the venue of the games. In most cases, you are
not assured that the Yankees baseball tickets you purchase
through these sources are genuine. Many people have lost their
money when they find that the Yankees baseball tickets they have
purchased from these sources are fake.
The Team
The New York Yankees started out as the Baltimore Orioles in
1901. The Baltimore franchise soon became defunct, and was sold
for $18,000 to Frank Farrell – owner of a casino and several
pool halls - and to Bill Devery – the very notorious ex-Chief of
Police, New York City. They moved base to Manhattan, and the
team was known as the New York Highlanders. They played at
Hilltop Park, the highest spot in Manhattan. The team was
officially renamed the New York Yankees in April 1913 after they
moved base to the Polo Ground. The Polo Ground was owned by, and
was the home to, the New York Giants of the National Football
League.
In 1921, the New York Yankees won their first of the 29 American
League (AL) pennants. The New York Yankees boast of players who,
today, are the legends of the game. Players, such as Babe Ruth,
Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, and Yogi Berra, among others, need no
introduction.
The Stadium
In 1923, two years after being asked to vacate the Polo Grounds,
the then owners - Colonels Jacob Ruppert and Tillinghast
L’Hommedieu Huston – opened their own ballpark on April 18, and
named it the Yankee Stadium. The stadium was built on 10 acres
of land purchased in West Bronx from the estate of William
Waldorf Astoria for $675,000.
The Stadium took all of 284 working days to build, and had a
striking feature - the 15-foot deep copper façade across the
front of the roof – which exists in some form, even today. A new
Yankee Stadium is being built, and is expected to be ready for
the 2009 season.
