Early 20th Century Ticket Stub Question

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by Hankphenom

Surely they wouldn't have printed the entire season in advance

Why not?

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by doug.goodman

Why not?

Expense, for one thing. Especially back then, when money was so tight, are you going to print tickets for the entire stadium for every game, then throw away most of them, as attendance was so much smaller then, or are you going to wait until a few days beforehand and try to predict what the demand might be, print those, and have some kind of generic or proof tickets to use for any excess demand that might materialize in the interim? Also, any numbering system would be rendered obsolete by the first rainout. I'm not saying I know how they did do it, but I can't imagine them sucking up the enormous cost of the first scenario when that could be avoided by a more timely system.