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By Callum Borchers, WBUR Reporter
May 13, 2021
Callum Borchers, WBUR Reporter
After being shut out of sports arenas for a year, Boston sports fans are shelling out huge sums to watch the Red Sox, Bruins, and Celtics play in person.
Pent-up demand and limited supply are driving ticket prices to record highs, even with capacity limits at Fenway Park and TD Garden set to double Monday to 25 percent.
Average resale prices for the Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins are in the $350 range this season about $200 more than when fans were last allowed through the turnstiles prior to the pandemic, according to TicketIQ, a firm that monitors prices.
The day many Rhode Islanders dreaded is fast approaching. Opening day in the Worcester, Massachusetts, home of the wandering, smiley-face-logoed WooSox, is scheduled for May 11.
This summer, there will be a PawSox-shaped hole at their former home in McCoy Stadium, which spent the winter as a COVID-19 testing site.
Over the last couple of years in Worcester, Rhode Islanders have seen glimpses of the alternate timeline under which Pawtucket kept the team and consummated the ballpark construction plan that roiled the State House on and off for four years.
If Worcester s experience is any guide, it may not have been all peanuts and cracker jack.
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