# One Admission Price for the Double Header? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 12, 2015, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-admission-price-for-the-double-header/730899 "2015-09-12T19:18:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![barbitu8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@barbitu8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barbitu8)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2015, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-admission-price-for-the-double-header/730899/1 "2015-09-12T19:18:37Z")
This may be moved to a more appropriate forum but I have a specific question. When I was young Sunday double headers were the norm in baseball; hence. Ernie Banks “Let’s play two.” Admission was much cheaper, too. At Wrigley Field, bleachers for 50 cents and box seats $2.50. Ever since players’ salaries exploded admission prices have also exploded, and two for the price of one no longer prevailed. If a make-up game was needed on the same day as a scheduled game. the make-up game would be played in the afternoon and the scheduled game in the evening. Last evening, the Cubs and Phillies had to play and old-time double header, with only half an hour intermission. My question is: Was the stadium cleared before the second game so that separate admissions would be collected? My guess is Yes, but I do not see how that could be effectively done because people could hide in-between games ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2015, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-admission-price-for-the-double-header/730899/2 "2015-09-12T19:28:58Z")
Usually, that sort of make-up doubleheader has a single admission price. The logistics of clearing out the stadium are just too difficult (what if some fans refuse to leave? How do you deal with it?). Teams will try to have day/night double headers, where the first game is at 11 am and the second game at 715 pm. Most people will leave given the long gap between games. ---
**Author:** ![barbitu8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@barbitu8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barbitu8)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2015, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-admission-price-for-the-double-header/730899/3 "2015-09-12T19:42:59Z")
Thanks. That is the first time I’ve seen the postponed game played immediately before the scheduled game. So, they who had rain checks can see the extra game free (?) ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2015, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-admission-price-for-the-double-header/730899/4 "2015-09-12T21:55:15Z")
> [@barbitu8](#): > > Thanks. That is the first time I’ve seen the postponed game played immediately before the scheduled game. So, they who had rain checks can see the extra game free (?) I’ve been to a few Mets single- admission double headers. There’s an announcement made about which tickets will be honored- usually it’s the tickets for the game originally scheduled on the date of the doubled header, but the people with rain checks from the postponed game can trade them in for that date. From what I hear, the Yankees usually clear the stadium and schedule the first game for around 1pm and the second around 6 or 7. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2015, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-admission-price-for-the-double-header/730899/5 "2015-09-12T22:21:58Z")
> [@doreen](#): > > I’ve been to a few Mets single- admission double headers. There’s an announcement made about which tickets will be honored- usually it’s the tickets for the game originally scheduled on the date of the doubled header, but the people with rain checks from the postponed game can trade them in for that date. From what I hear, the Yankees usually clear the stadium and schedule the first game for around 1pm and the second around 6 or 7. That’s what the Yankees are doing tonight. Last night’s game was postponed. Since it’s also supposed to rain tonight, they’ll be clearing the place out and starting only 30 minutes after the first game ends (it went to 11 innings before Toronto scored 4 more) ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2015, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-admission-price-for-the-double-header/730899/6 "2015-09-12T22:56:54Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > That’s what the Yankees are doing tonight. Last night’s game was postponed. Since it’s also supposed to rain tonight, they’ll be clearing the place out and starting only 30 minutes after the first game ends (it went to 11 innings before Toronto scored 4 more) We are watching that on TV now (well, my wife is, I’m wasting my time on TSD) and I could have sworn that the announcer said it was a single admission double-header. The Jays are ahead 3-0 in the 2nd in the second game. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2015, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-admission-price-for-the-double-header/730899/7 "2015-09-13T01:46:20Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > We are watching that on TV now (well, my wife is, I’m wasting my time on TSD) and I could have sworn that the announcer said it was a single admission double-header. > > The Jays are ahead 3-0 in the 2nd in the second game. It was ( and that’s apparently unusual for them) . 30 minutes is not nearly enough time to clear a stadium and let a new set of ticketholders in - when they do separate admissions, the first game starts at around 1 pm. That game will _usually_ be over around fourish ( assuming it doesn’t go into extra innings) - leaving 2-3 hours to clear the stadium and let the ticketholders in before the second game starts at 6 or 7. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2015, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-admission-price-for-the-double-header/730899/8 "2015-09-13T13:05:03Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Usually, that sort of make-up doubleheader has a single admission price. The logistics of clearing out the stadium are just too difficult (what if some fans refuse to leave? How do you deal with it?). > > Teams will try to have day/night double headers, where the first game is at 11 am and the second game at 715 pm. Most people will leave given the long gap between games. \*\*doreen \*\*touched on this, but just to clarify: in the day-night type of doubleheader they \*always \*clear out the stadium in between, and they sell separate tickets to each game. People do not have the choice of staying in their seats, even if they have tickets for the second game and/or want to wait out the delay. See wiki: [Doubleheader (baseball) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubleheader_(baseball)#Day-night) And as \*\*doreen \*\*said, typically game 1 starts around 1 in the afternoon. It is extremely rare for any MLB game to begin before noon. Game 2 does begin at the standard evening slot of, as you say, 7:15 or so. These doubleheaders are variously called “split” doubleheaders, “day-night” doubleheaders, and “separate admission” doubleheaders. The last gives an indication of how it works. As an aside, the split-admission day-night doubleheader actually goes waaaay back in time. The Brooklyn Dodgers hosted one in 1946, and teams had them occasionally over the next couple of decades. In 1968 the Basic Agreement banned them, but the Red Sox petitioned to bring them back in the late eighties as a way to make up rainouts, and they’ve been reasonably common ever since. (Info from Charlie Bevis, Doubleheaders: A Major League History) ---
**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-admission-price-for-the-double-header/730899/9 "2015-09-15T10:59:42Z")
> [@barbitu8](#): > > Was the stadium cleared before the second game so that separate admissions would be collected? My guess is Yes, but I do not see how that could be effectively done because people could hide in-between games See > **[MLB.com | The Official Site of Major League Baseball](https://www.mlb.com)** > > Coverage includes audio and video clips, interviews, statistics, schedules and exclusive stories. “single admission double header”. … a single ticket was sold, basically there was no time to do anything practical about tickets for the 2nd game, No time to clear the bleachers, and no time to sell tickets even if they could have produced tickets. and with the short notice there would had been few buyers even if there were tickets. The one ticket, and the original single game tickets, allowed entry to both games, Also the tickets from the washed out game (and other cancelled games) could have been swapped for a ticket to the double header… and many other single games… but not for any future “clear the bleachers, need two tickets” double…( they aren’t giving the double header as compensation…)