And we don't mean on-base percentage
By MIKE MILIARD | July 18, 2006
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$380 million. Amount that was paid for the team itself*
$617 million.The team’s current value*
$4 million Expected revenue the Sox will receive by the end of the year after moving 28 games that used to be shown on free TV to NESN*
33,871 Capacity of Fenway park when the current ownership bought the team
38,805 Fenway’s current capacity
$275 Price of a ticket for the new EMC Club
$18 Price of a field box seat in 1988, when this writer went to his first Red Sox game
$95 Price of the same seat now
$18 Price of an upper deck bleacher seat when the current ownership took over
$12 Price of the same seat now
$4 Price of a bleacher ticket in 1995, right after the strike-shortened 1994 season
* Source: Forbes.
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