Ticket Stud or Ticket Dud? You decide ... here's Chapter 47

With these Ticket Stud or Ticket Dud stories I'm turning just a tiny bit of that energy just a few degrees away from cards (we'll still have plenty of them here) for a different kind of cardboard. What am I doing? Simple ... this is an occasional dip into some random ticket lots -- a show and tell showing something small with a story.

This time? This week's MLB All-Star Game hero in another exhibition game from years ago.

Keep reading to see the details this time ... and tell me if you think it's a Ticket Stud or a Ticket Dud.

THE DETAILS ...
The Category: Major League Baseball (spring training)
The Events: Milwaukee Brewers at Chicago Cubs -- March 23, 2018
The Results: Cubs 4, Brewers 3
The Attendance: 15,831 at Sloan Park in Mesa, Ariz.
The Price: $48
The Cost (for me): Pocket change as part of a bulk lot

The Ticket Studs (Key Players): Cubs OF Ian Happ with the lone homer in the game
Others: Cubs -- 1B Anthony Rizzo, OF Kyle Schwarber, SP Tyler Chatwood (5 IP, 5Ks in win); Brewers -- OF Keon Broxton (2-for-3, two RBI), OF Christian Yelich, SP Brandon Woodruff (5 I, 6Ks in loss)

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What's Buzz-worthy: Ultimately, this game didn't count -- unless it helped somebody make the team -- but you would not know it looking at the design of the ticket here or that price. (Helps to have a newer facility and a young team with fresh World Series rings.) The box score is a deep one and there was only one Brewer with multiple hits and only one Cub with a longball -- the lone homer in the game -- so the result is not that flashy, either. But the visual here? That's a home run ... even if Schwarber went 0-for-3 in this game. I doubt people really dig spring tickets -- I don't generally -- but I do wonder with that total attendance being relatively low how many of the tickets made (or left)  are this style. (Also, are they all this deluxe or is this a season ticket style package for spring?) That might make some stuff like this rarer than people might think ... I guess the only way to see is to test the market with stuff like this and try and sell during peak times. This might be a good time to be selling Schwarber, though he's also cheap enough to collect and have fun with a very solid slugger.

Stud or Dud? This oversized ticket is a stud ... just look at it.

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