NEW YORK — The Chicago Cubs have the highest-priced tickets for regular seats in the major leagues, overtaking the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox.
Tickets at Wrigley Field for non-premium sections average $52.56 this season following a 10.1 percent increase, the Team Marketing Report said Wednesday in its annual study.
Boston's Fenway Park was second at $52.32 following a 4.1 percent hike. At Yankee Stadium, where some lower-deck seats without free food were reclassified premium at the request of the team, the average was set at $51.83, up 0.4 percent.
The Arizona Diamondbacks have the lowest average at $14.31. The overall average in the big leagues was $26.74, up 1.5 percent.