1909 Opening Day - Shibe Park
April 12, 1909 ticket from the First Game at Shibe Park - Philadelphia.
Athletics beat Red Sox, 8-1 Attendance: 30,162 - the shown example was more than likely crumpled and stuffed into somebody's pocket before being miraculously removed and "saved" for posterity, and that makes me not only wonder how many of the 30,162 in attendance that day held onto their ticket stub when they exited the ballpark, but also how many of these tickets have managed to survive for just over 100 years?
(ticket was pasted into a scrap book / album that was purchased from an antique shop in the mid-1990's...amazingly enough, the scrapbook / album also included a 1910 World Series ticket stub and two of the three different rare Shibe Park pre-opening / artist rendering postcards that were issued c.1908-1909).
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