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Are Fenway Park and Wrigley Field the only MLB parks that sell obstructed view and standing room only seats?

August 15th, 2009 · 10 Comments

HockeyGuy asked:


In my opinion, no park should sell an obstructed view seat, like the ones at Fenway and Wrigley that are located right behind the support beams/poles. That is just ludicrous to actually profit on these horrible vantage point seats.

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10 responses so far ↓

  • 1 soxrock192 // Aug 15, 2009 at 10:22 pm

    Well, the Ballpark in Arlington has supporters that block seats. Same with the Metrodome

    As for standing-room only, Busch Stadium has about 2500 standing room only seats

  • 2 A J // Aug 16, 2009 at 5:58 pm

    It’s not ludicrous to sell those seats…after all, they are sold at a discount (at least the ones I bought were). I’ve bought them twice, and each time it was the only way to get into the stadium as all others were sold out. And, for the low price, I actually had a seat that was excellent but highly flawed.

    I think the O’s sell SRO tickets as well.

  • 3 Nally25 // Aug 17, 2009 at 11:39 am

    Alot of teams sell standing room only, I know they have them at Busch Stadium. Im not sure about the obstructed view, but yeah that is awful they should not sell seats where you can not even view the game.

  • 4 grudge164 // Aug 20, 2009 at 4:10 am

    yankee stadiam sells abstructed view seats

  • 5 nas8caror300 // Aug 21, 2009 at 1:13 am

    almost all satduims sell SRO tickets//and there is stil some staduims that also has obstucted view tickets

  • 6 Chitown fan // Aug 24, 2009 at 1:01 pm

    Good question! i agree with you 100%. I’ve been to Wrigley and people buy tickets regardless of location. It’s the “in” thing here to go to a Cubs game.I have more respect for out of town fans who come to Chicago just to experience the atmosphere. It’s the biggest bar on game days here. Just an excuse to call you friends and say hey look i’m on camera.

  • 7 Mike W // Aug 27, 2009 at 11:12 am

    What would you like them to do about it? Fenway Park opened in 1912, and Wrigley Field opened in opened in 1914. At the time they were built there were architectural limitations on building ball parks that don’t exist today.

  • 8 Vincent A // Aug 29, 2009 at 8:44 pm

    I know for certain that AT&T Park in San Francisco has SRO seating. I figure, if you know what you are buying, then its up to the consumer.

  • 9 Me // Aug 31, 2009 at 3:55 am

    It’s business; anything for a profit.

  • 10 doctorwhofan23 // Aug 31, 2009 at 10:01 am

    Well it really does not matter because people who are Cubs and Red Sox fans are real fans and they go to the game to support the team.

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