Pro teams in Boston stay tough on scalpers
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Frank P. Baker of Sharon could easily turn a big profit reselling his first-row, 40-yard-line seats for New England Patriots games, but he never does.
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HEMPSTEAD, N.Y., Jan. 4 - Some players seem destined to make a statement in big games, and some seem to shy from the moment.
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The New England Patriots have won a bid to get the names of all the fans who bought or sold Â or tried to buy or sell Â tickets to home games through online ticket reseller StubHub Inc., a move one technology group sees as an invasion of privacy.
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BOSTONâThese Yankees are an arrogant bunch. Six consecutive first-place finishes tend to do that. But very rarely do you see a team in the heat of a pennant race facing the team chasing them send out a starting pitcher just to see him get work.
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The prospective new owners of Boston's Fan Pier said yesterday they would not rule out selling sections or taking on partners to develop nonresidential components of the 3 million-square-foot project.
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A bidding war may be under way for the struggling maker of trading cards.
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The Celtics are selling more tickets than last season despite an abysmal record; the Toronto Blue Jays want Major League Baseball to expand its draft to include players from overseas; and the kids at MIT, well, they're into analyzing the numbers behind it all.
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How many other teams can make news by finishing two-a-day practices with a bar fight -- not to mention one in which some Thundering Herd knucklehead maybe gives a ticket to the festivities to a player on a team they&#39;ll be playing next month?
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With big-ticket free agents like Carlos Beltran, Richie Sexson and Carlos Delgado still on the market, baseball executives are playing wait-and-see.
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Before last night&#39;s game with Tampa Bay at Fenway Park, every Boston player in sight was bombarded by questions about the drama that will be played out this weekend at Yankee Stadium against the Red Sox&#39; hated rivals.
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It's a hard town for sports fans who don't toe the line. Sure, root for the Yankees and you're reviled. But there's a subtler band of loners in the Boston sports world: those who notice the fine details of not only screen passes or double plays, but also the clothing the players wear on the field.
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The New England Patriots have filed suit against one of the nation's largest ticket resellers, StubHub Inc., saying the company encourages fans to flout the state antiscalping law and the team's prohibition against reselling Patriots tickets for a profit by facilitating the sale of tickets on its website, StubHub.com.
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The line at the souvenir store curved around the corner, about the length of a Mark Bellhorn homer into Pesky's Pole. Thousands of fans yearned to wear the words "Boston Red Sox" and "World Series Champions" on the same shirt. One of them wasn't sure what he wanted on the back.
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The World Series champion Boston Red Sox raised their ticket prices by an average of 7 percent for next year, with the price of field boxes increasing by $10 to $85.
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Hold on to those tickets for this afternoon&#39;s fifth game of the American League Championship Series. The left-for-dead Red Sox are still breathing.
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ARLINGTON -- A labor dispute may sideline professional hockey for the season, but recreational players are lacing up their skates and hitting the ice -- eager to slap-shoot their way through another New England winter.
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BOSTON (Ticker) -- The New York Yankees look to put a stranglehold on the Boston Red Sox as the American League Championship Series shifts to Fenway Park on Friday for Game Three.