NEW YANKEES STADIUM TICKETS

Stubhub, the leading online ticket marketplace reports that it has listed over 9,000 tickets available for the Yankees’ final regular season game ever at Yankee Stadium vs the Baltimore Orioles scheduled for September 21st.

The average ticket selling price for Orioles-Yankees is $400.  The most expensive ticket sold for the finale was a $3,500 ticket sold last month.  Stubhub reports that the Orioles-Yankees game is the best selling MLB game (regular and postseason!) in Stubhub history, based on dollar volume although in gross dollars the Yankees All-Star game was higher.

One last homestand and ten games are left to be played at Yankee Stadium before the historic ballpark is torn down.  Prices for tickets to the remaining games at old Yankee Stadium are going through the roof.  One report suggests that bleacher seats for the remaining 10 games are at 100+.

Late Friday the New York Yankees released season ticket pricing information for the $1.3 billion New Yankee Stadium ballpark.  Going to a Yankees ballgame will be more expensive in 2009, but the Yankees are keeping some seating affordable.  The front part of the area behind the outfield are priced at $100 and $75 if purchased via a season ticket.  Behind the bullpen in center are 9 bleacher sections priced at $12, the same as they were in the old Yankee stadium.

New York City tabloids have printed rumors that the Steinbrenner family is looking to top Billy Joel and the New York Mets.

The Steinbrenners are hoping to book Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band or Sir Paul McCartney to perform at Yankee Stadium after the baseball season but before the wrecking ball hits. 

Springsteen has just ended his tour, McCartney, who performed with Billy Joel at Shea Stadium, is planning a world tour that begins this fall.

The Yankee Stadium regular-season finale on Sept. 21 game against the Baltimore Orioles will be held at 8:05 pm and will be televised nationally by ESPN.  As the Yankees struggle, it looks like they may not make the post season since the early 90’s.

Stubhub has tickets to the last game at Yankee Stadium ranging from $265 for the lowest priced seat all the way up to $65,000 for a single ticket.

The new Yankee Stadium will open on April 16, 2009 with the Yankees taking on the Cleveland Indians.