Tickets, please

I love paper tickets.

I love the smooth, glossy front. I love the heavy card stock. Before bar codes on tickets, I loved the one rough edge where the ticket-taker ripped my ticket.

I loved looking at tickets weeks before a game. And I love looking at them now, decades later.

On this blog, I’ll share scanned images of the tickets I’ve collected since 1982, and maybe a short story about the ticket or the game or something related to either. I’ve kept my ticket stubs from the vast majority of the events I’ve attended over the last four decades: Mostly sports, primarily baseball, starting with a Chicago White Sox ticket that provides the cover image.