I've tried to hold onto the ticket stub for everything I've been to in the last 15 years and have a really ecclectic mix - sports events, movies, plays, etc - and have a few photo albums full of them.

Didn't know that may people collected them until a recent google search and even found out that PSA is grading them

I think the prize of my collection so far is from sept 19, 1998 Yankees vs. Orioles. My dad and I drove down to Baltimore from New Jersey to see the game .. which was fun .. but then while driving back the next day learned that Cal Ripken jr. sat out .. making the game we saw on the Saturday #2,632 and the last of the streak.

any value on this ? and does anyone else collect ticket stubs ?

Jim,

This web site may help you out or point you in the right direction. Notice that they mention tickets from Ripken's streak right in the opening paragraph.

Personally, I'm very hit and miss on whether I actually keep the stubs from events I attended and many of those are rather worn from being shoved in the wallet or jeans pocket.

-Bob

I collect my receipts of my vacations. It reminds me of what I did when and where.

I have a few random ticket stubs, but nothing of historical significance - except maybe Reggie Miller's last game at MSG.

I have one full ticket of note: 1977 World Series Game 6. My dad gave it to me when I first started collecting back in 1992. The importance of this ticket is that this was the game where Reggie Jackson hit 3 homers. I saw that on TV. In 1993 I got it signed by Reggie Jackson and was authenticated by the representing sportscard company. They no longer exist. In March 2005, PSA/DNA was in town, so I had the ticket re-authenticated. I've seen full tickets (unsigned) on eBay go for about $76 a piece. But my ticket is the only item in my collection that I got for free, sans the autograph. But, that's okay. Hunting for that one autograph was fun.

While I reload my firepower to go against the big boys who bid on 19th century items, I will start building another collection around this ticket, with the theme being Reggie Jackson in The 1977 World Series. This will be a little easier to compile. One collection for the passion and art, the other for childhood nostalgia.

wow .. great ticket .. watching Reggie hit the three homers in the 77 world series was one of my first baseball-related memories. I was 5 and he was my first favorite player.

At one time I had a scrapbook with some headlines & some yankee programs from around the time. I also had a book on Reggie that came out a few years later when you flipped the pages real fast there you saw a little animation of one of those home runs in the corner.

I also tried saving a "reggie bar" .. but it melted in the pack in my sock drawer and my mom threw it away.

... yep .. lots of memories based on that event .. and I guess that's why people are saving the ticket stubs or seeking them from the event.

I remember those! Really much too sweet. And it was more of a Reggie 'glop' than a Reggie bar.

I collect stubs but I have no idea how you find out a value. I mainly have hockey stubs. I have seen people buying and selling baseball ticket stubs. I think it is like old toys, you remember playing with them (ticket stubs - going to the game), and seeing it in your collection reminds you of the fun you had (or the event you witnessed like a shutout, 1 hit game, etc.). I think they are more collectable because of what Bob said below, everyone sticks them in there wallet and by the end of the week, they throw them out, which makes them more collectible to own.

Here are 2 additional resources for you to look at:

TicketStubCollector.com provides articles and links to other sites.

ChicagoTix.com looks to be one of the leading dealers.

From the ChicagoTix.com site, it looks like some of the tickets mentioned here would be worth a minimum of $15 and probably more.

-Bob

Ticket stubs are a neat thing to collect because they each have their own unique story behind them. Like you said above the game Cal sat out. Nice collection

Kept every stub from every game I've been to for at least 10 years.

Never thought of trading them tho, to me they just have value as a keepsake.
The great thing about them is they are a 1/1 of sorts. No one else had that seat for that game.

Just wanted to mention that this site is the recommended hobby site in the "Surfing Safari" portion of the June 2005 issue of Tuff Stuff. Sounds like it would be a good place to look around for more information on ticket-stub collecting.

-Bob

Just wanted to point out that you can see Indy's autographed ticket on his web site now. Click here to view it.

-Bob

Cool Ticket!

Hard to beleive that you could get into the World Series for $10.00?!?! My how things have changed!

Thanks for sharing.

It was actually for free. Some poor soul that dropped it in the elevator didn't get to see the game.

Pretty amazing. That even includes the $0.75 tax.

By the way, I made sure that we kept the 2 ticket stubs from yesterday's Pirates game - my youngest son's first game. It's nice that they don't tear the tickets anymore.

-Bob

I keep every ticket stub from baseball games I attend. I stick them in my binder of autographed cards. The rest of my tickets for movies and stuff go into a drawer for a little bit. Now that I am in a good relationship we have started doing a memory/scrap book of things we do. (never done anything like this before) He is into baseball just as much as I am. (Thats where I met him). I think saving tickey stubs is a good way to keep memories going.

I have and these are the only ones I have saved over the years..

Every ticket stub and scorecard of every Home run hit by Mark Mcgwire in 1998 starting with #62. I was there that night and a few other times at Busch during his run to 70.

I paid huge money for unused stubs and scorecards from Milwaukee series where Mcgwire was robbed up 66 by the umps.

I have them all framed and matted and stored away since 1999.

I try to keep receipts from places I go to on vacation. It has the date and time stamped and most of the time a record of a service provided or what was bought. It would give my memory a point reference - what were we doing before that? After that? And so forth.

I have several ticket stubs of concerts I've been to. Most of them autographed. My favorite is Kiss at the Arco Arena in Sacramento, Cal. What makes that special is I caught not one but 2 guitar picks. One from Gene Simmons and other Paul Stanley! My all time favorite was my stub from the 79' world series both of my teams played.

Bob should know this one, The Pittsburgh Pirates and Baltimore Orioles. I saw game 3. Bad thing it was in baltimore and I was wearing my pirates jersey and hat! Unfortunately hurricane Ivan flooded my mothers basement so it was lost!

Sorry to hear that, I know a few guys here who lost their collections in their basements due to Ivan. I am sure there are plenty of others from the last two down south as that got to the roofs. That is the one thing that scares me the most is loss by fire, or natural disaster. Does anyone have insurance on their cards/collection? And if so how did you go about getting it appraised? Just curious.

Well this might be good for another thread.
Depends on your your company.
If your collection is worth serious money most companies want proof such as pictures or might even have to let them be appraised if they are $$$.
If you do have insurance and want some money back for them you better have great documentation! Remember this isn't like a car! So make sure you talk extensive with your insurance person about them to see their policies on valuables!

I started a group a while back for stubs. It has a number of links as well...not just sports though. anyway, it's at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stubcollectors/

I save my tix from everything. Down the road it'll be neat to look back on. I've been to a few milestone games, Joe Carter's whatever-thousandth hit (think it was 2000), Don Shula's ?? win as a coach (I can't remember any numbers, but the Don Shula game was neat because a few years back I went to the Football HOF in Ohio and they had a display for him with pics and stuff from the game, pretty cool). When stuff happens I should write it on the ticket. I always write the names of opening acts on my concert tix.

My dad saved all his old tix from the late 60's through today and they're so cool to go through. Can't beat seeing Yes for under $5.

i would never write on my stubs. Thats like writing on a mantle rookie. I keep all my stubs inside the jew cases of my cd's. Such as my kiss ticket with both picks are in the cd for alive 3.
I have one for night ranger (drummer kerry keagey) signed it after the show, one from Frehleys comet(Ace frehley kiss) his guitarist signed it. he gave me and my friend a tour of their bus and drank a beer with us and shot the breeze after concert.
The club is called the cadillac club in central cali, real small place. All the bands just hang out afterwards unless they had to leave right after.
My best one is from the band KIX went to a promotion party for them at a bar in maryland. They all signed my cd.
My time in the military I met alot of famous people!

I write on the backs.

I have my first concert stub in a screwdown (Aerosmith in 1993). The rest are just in a pile.

Instead of writing on them maybe do it on a piece of paper. This way the stub stays in a prestine state. Writing on any collectable devalues them. But some people also do it for the keepsake and not the resaleability. Anyway whatever works for you! Maybe think about putting your stubs in a srap book!

I'm not concerned about the value, I know I'll never sell them. I've considered putting them in some kind of book, but I don't want to glue or paste them in. I'd like to put them in essentially baseball card pages (so I can easily view the backs for the openers), but some are torn in half and others are complete, different sizes, etc. I might be OK with the 6-pocket pages made for the longer cards.

Now I have a new project.

I was about to suggest that. Plus gives you easy way to view them without touching them all the time!

Hey I have a 1984 UNUSED Tiger World Series ticket! I wonde what that's worth!

I have 3 signed tickets from Robin Yount's 3,000 hit game and 7 unsigned. I also have 10 unsigned unused from Paul Molitor's 3,000 hit game. I have a ticket stub that may be valuable, its from the Packers last game last year, and of course if Brett Favre retires, I will have the ticket from his last game ever and I will have had the joy of attending it.

We saved the ticket stubs from our first date which was the M's 116th record tying win in 2001. We also saved the stubs from Felix Hernandez's first major league win and then took them to have signed.

Any games I happen to go to I always keep the ticket. So far I have 20 baseball game tickets and four or five tickets from hockey games.

I get my tickets autographed at the game by usually the coach of the team or just one of their I'm not going to say bad but not so good players I usually get my stuff signed on floorboards.8 by 10's.cards.balls.etc.

I save my stubs. I have a ton of UT basketball ones. Also have UT football and baseball.

Yes I do too. I don't think I have anything worth while tho. I've got A's and raiders stubs from '76 I think. Stanford stubs. Angels, Mariners and Giants. Raiders in LA also. Minor league baseball (many) Hey maybe the California Golden Seals NHL tickets are worth something since they're long gone, or the big time wrestling stubs with Andre the Giant at the Cow palace, Huh?

I also have saved all my stubs from both sporting events and concerts... ah, memories...

I hang on to ticket stubs, too. I have them for movies as far back as Congo in 1995 to a Blue Jays-Orioles game stub from 1991 on 1992.

It's all about the memories. Who cares about the value of them. You went to something and you kept the ticket just for the dollar value that would be placed next to it? I'd rather keep it to look back on all the good times..

This just jogged my memory - I can't remember where I saw it, but some company has put out a binder specifically for holding ticket stubs. Man, I just saw it recently, where was it!!??!?!?!?

hmmm i have a few

i keep the ones to the wrestling events i got to!

I try to keep all of my tickets to sporting events!

I see its starting to get popular to store these things - BCW is now doing ticket stubb toploaders .. and there are auctions on ebay like this:

eBay Auction (Item number: 8810092507)

for binder pages. I'll have to order a few awesome !

-Jim

A couple of ticket stub stories..

The collectors

and The Dealer

I collect ticket stubs. I have the very first ticket stub from the very first Titans game ever.

Always keeps the stubs to go with newspaper clipings or pics!

I have a few tickets and ticket stubs. Not a lot. A ticket stub from the game Pete Rose set the all time hits record, A signed unused game ticket from Nolan Ryan's 4000 K game, a signed unused game ticket from Ryan's 5000 K game, an unused ticket from his 6th no hitter, an unused ticket from his 300th win game, a signed tucket stub from Steve Carlton's 300th win game, a signed unused game ticket from Gaylord Perry's 300th win game, an unused ticket from George Brett's 3000 hit game, a ticket signed by Luke Scott when he hit his first home run (and he also hit a double, triple, and single in the same game), and...oh yes...a signed ticket stub from game 5 of the 1956 World Series signed by Don Larsen.

Oh yes, I forgot to mention, I have an uncut set of Game 3, 4, and 5 phantom tickets to the 1969 World Series in the Astrodome signed by the Astros '69 MVP and first 20 game winner, Larry Dierker. The Astros were in the thick of their first pennant chase in 1969 and were given the authority to print Playoff and World Series tickets before they faded the last two weeks of the season. The Astros didn't get to taste the postseason until 1980, but these tickets are a wonderful piece of history from that first pennant chase.

Ive got many ticket stubs from the Nebraska Cornhuskers dating from the 60's to present, even have ALL of their bowl game stubs.

if anyone is interested in sell there ticket stubs or unused tickets drop me a line at hockey2179@juno.com im always buying no collection to big

I have a ticket stub from the Midwest League (A) All-Star game from this year. Thats pretty neat.

I also have the ticket stub from my first Cubs game ever, and the second one. Even though I'm a Sox fan I still root for the Cubbies.

Lets see... I have various Kane County Cougars opening day tickets.

I liked that "That's my ticket website" . Not bad actually for the $. I built a collage of Atwater's last game stub,pic, etc., Elams 63yd FG game, Elways HOF ceremony (all attended in person) at Michael's hobby place and it ran about that same price all said and done. Got the Elam one AU later. BTW, if anyone has a stub or program from the 86' AFC championship, please let me know.