Many teams allow fans with upper deck tickets to come to the lower level for batting practice.
In one example, an upper-deck ticket sold by Virginia Tech cost $65, while a similar ticket was available for $12 through an online ticket seller.
The use of demand pricing for ticket sales has rocketed the cost of a top-deck ticket on opening day from six bucks a few years ago to more than 10 times that amount.
Instead, he opted for paying $100 each for four upper-deck tickets, which he shares with friends.
After seven years and 19,391 craniums bared in exchange for free upper-deck tickets, the clippers went silent.
Routemasters had been staffed with bus conductors, who patrolled its double decks selling tickets from portable machines, assisting passengers and ringing the bus's bell to tell the driver when it was safe to pull away from the kerb.
In the land of abundance, there are all these wonderful spots just over the next hill, or with the next spouse, or with the next job opportunity, after the next deck renovation or lottery ticket, where all the dreams come true.
This year, a package to sit in the upper deck at Citi Field, including tickets to the Futures Game, the Home Run Derby, the game and the FanFest at the Javits Convention Center, was $700.
But now? "The owners wanted the new stadium to make more money and now want us to pay for their greed," Arnold Spier of Fair Lawn, N.J., who has had four upper-deck Jets season tickets in his family since the 1960's, wrote me in an e-mail message.
He carried a cloth shopping bag containing, for demonstration purposes, a deck of cards, five Powerball tickets, and a baggie of weed.
"Twenty games for $200?" Viola said, citing the lowest-priced season ticket, in the third deck down the right-field line.
