When the Dodgers won their one and only World Series in Brookyln, a ticket to Game 4 could be had for $7.35, or less than the cost of a hot dog or a beer at the current Barclays center, which sits on the spot where Walter O'Malley wanted to build his new Dodgers' Stadium. O'Malley was of course a business man, by the traditional definition, and he surely deserves some of the credit, or blame, for the prices fans are paying to see sports in a modern, amenity-rich venue on Flatbush avenue. Current prices for Nets tickets for their inaugural playoff series against the Bulls average $279. If the series goes 7, Game 7 will likely cross $500.
Regular season baseball is, of course, a different story. When the LA Dodgers played their first game in front of a packed house of 78,672 at the LA Colliseum, it cost $3.50 to get in. In 2013, the Dodgers pay two visits back to their original city, and while fans in the Bronx are paying a lot more on average for Yankees tickets against LA, the price to get into each series are both relatively affordable, between $20 and $35. The reality of selling 4 million tickets a year means that there will always be relatively cheap tickets, even for marquee matchups. For the two Dodgers games vs. the Yankees in June, the cheapest ticket to be had is $32. Mets tickets to the opening game versus the Dodgers could be had for under $10. Game 2 features phenom Matt Harvey, and are a bit more expensive with a get-in price of $20
While the Dodgers visit the Mets each year, this is the Dodgers first visit to the New Yankee Stadium, and first time that Yankee fans will get to see former-captain Don Mattingly in Dodger blue. The last time the Dodgers visited the Bronx was the 1981 World Series, and a ticket to the game cost $20, or roughly 3 times the price of a ticket to the 1955 World Series. Last year, the minimum face price for the Giants-Tigers World Series was $110, or roughly 5 times the cheapest ticket for the 1981 series. Thanks to the actively-traded secondary ticket market, though, you can get into most any Yankees or Dodgers game for $10, or $2.65 more than it would have cost you to see one of most memorable World Series in baseball history.