ON THIS DAY IN 1916 , the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “Prices for the World’s Series baseball tickets, announced by the National Commission today, show that admission this year if the series is partly played in Brooklyn will be at war rates ― in some cases 100 per cent higher than the prices charged last year in Boston and Philadelphia. The prices to be charged here run from $5 for boxes and blocks of grandstand seats down to $1 for the left field bleacher seats. Crammed to capacity, Ebbets Field will hold approximately 30,000 persons, and the large majority of these will pay either $5 or $3 for seats. The right field bleacher seats, temporarily constructed, will sell at $2. The pavilion seats, now sold for 50 cents each, will also be $2. The present 75 cent seats in the grandstand, an

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