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...Sure, fans act recklessly in other leagues. People brag about how much fun the bleacher area is at Yankee Stadium. Here's the fun I experienced there one night: three hours of enduring the incoherent drunks around me smoking pot, soiling our bench when the crowd rose and spewing nonsense at hitters 500 feet away...
...million. Is A-Rod's windfall really news? Toward the end of the 19th century, the boxer John L. Sullivan earned four times as much as the President, and Sully's contemporary Mike ("King") Kelly, baseball's first transcendent star, was able to underwrite a flashy lifestyle with what bleacher bums saw as an oversize paycheck. Joe DiMaggio was criticized for his regular spring-training holdouts, and in 1970, when Curt Flood challenged baseball's reserve clause, which bound a player to his team--in a case that went all the way to the Supreme Court--most fans viewed...
That is where the fans come in. For us, it is time to shut up and pay up. The days of bleacher seats for a nickel are gone forever. It is time to recognize that and move...
Most of those seats, though, belong to season holders. The people hardest hit by the spike will be the average fan. Infield grandstand seats will now run at $40 apiece, up nearly 50 percent from last year. And a lower bleacher seat will now cost you 20 bucks, up 25 percent from last season...
...Fenway, we sat in the outfield with the Sox's ever obstreperous bleacher bums. After a couple innings of anticipation (and not a few visits by the Bud Man), when Rocker finally emerged from under the bleachers to warm up, you would have thought that this crew was going to storm the field and lynch him. There was enough cursing coming from the bleachers to make a sailor blush...