Boston Red Sox Tickets

Thing No. 1  

You'll have to spend some money.

Even at face value, a good pair of tickets won't come cheap, but at least you're not paying Yankees or Cubs prices. Over the past few years, Sox tickets have become some of the most coveted in baseball. If you buy your tickets through the Red Sox box office at the beginning of the season (before all the games sell out), you can expect to pay anywhere from $12 for the upper bleachers (a place where Manny couldn't reach even during his "performance enhancing" years), to the silly price of $328 for a box by the dugout.

Remember, the Red Sox play teams other than the Yankees.  17 in fact, so let's consider the alternatives before breaking the bank on Jeter and A-Rod.  

Thing No. 2  

Start online.

If you're willing to wait until the week before the game then start with the Red Sox online box office. A few days before the games some singles and doubles pop up.  In part that is because the away teams will release tickets they've been granted that they don't need.  Best bet for those released tickets are the day before the first game of a series.  We're going to move on to some other online options but remember to keep checking the online box office because tickets will come back into circulation.

Thing No. 3

Craigslist.

You need to try Craigslist. There's more to the site than just sketchy dudes. Plenty of people are looking to get rid of Sox tickets for somewhat reasonable prices and on Craigslist they're often trying to do so farther in advance than they come available at the box office. But keep in mind, there aren't really rules regulating how high prices can go on Craigslist so buyer beware.  

Thing No. 4

StubHub.

If it's possible for there to be such a thing StubHub is like a legit ticket scalper.  The tickets on StubHub come mostly from fans and some from the teams.  It's owned by eBay and it's a completely guaranteed and reliable means to acquire tickets at "reasonable" scalper-like prices. There's a 10% juice charged on the ticket sales so even reasonably priced tickets are going to have at least that built in.  We use StubHub when we basically have no choice.  We must go to that game.  Otherwise we'll muscle our way through the online box office or Craiglist trying to get a deal.  

Thing No. 5  

At the park.

About ten years ago, the City of Boston made it not-illegal to sell unwanted tickets for that day's game in a designated area outside the park. The only rule here is that tickets have to be sold for face value or less. This designated area is in front of Gate B (near the intersection of Van Ness and Ipswich streets) between the statue of Ted Williams and the other statue of Ted Williams (seriously). Just make sure the tickets are real and for the appropriate game.

Also, you can check the ticket window at Gate C (on Landsdowne St) two hours before the game starts. Around 300 tickets per game are put into circulation per game this way. Note that people start lining up up to 5 hours before that, it's only one ticket per person, and you have to enter the ballpark immediately after purchase, so you got to want that ticket for this option.  

One final note about Fenway, there are plenty of obstructed seats.  The tickets only mark obstructed if two parts of the field are blocked.  We'd suggest doublechecking your seat view before pulling the trigger.