Fenway Park

Overstock.com's Ultimate Red Sox Experience Sweepstakes

Filed under: Sports

The Fenway dugout and throw pillows? Overstock.com has teamed up with the Boston Red Sox for the 'The Ultimate Red Sox Experience' Sweepstakes which they are promoting with a cute bunch of webisodes that have Overstock exec Stormy Simon sprucing up the Fenway Park dugout in a very un-baseball-like way. The "Ultimate Red Sox Experience" sweepstakes will give three winners all-expense-paid trips for two to see the Red Sox battle the dreaded rival New York Yankees at Boston's Fenway Park October 2nd. A grand prize winner will have the opportunity to post balls, strikes and runs on the stadium's iconic "Green Monster" scoreboard for an inning. The sweepstakes ends this Friday, September 10th; you can enter on the Overstock website.

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Jordan's Furniture Company Could Pay Out $40 Million In Monster Contest

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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New England furniture store Jordan's Furniture has launched the latest version of the "Monster" campaign to have fans rooting for the home team, the Boston Red Sox. The Boston Globe reports that customers who bought any Jordan's furniture merchandise at one of the regional chain's stores from April 1 through May 2 won't have to pay for their purchases if any Red Sox player manages to hit the baseball in the Jordan's Furniture company sign at Fenway Park between July 15 and October 3. It's no easy task, the sign measures six feet by twelve feet and hangs 421 feet from home plate. But there will be around 3,000 at bats that could yield victory.

The company started the Monster promotions in 2007 when it promised rebate checks to customers if the Red Sox won the World Series. The Sox won and Jordan's furniture paid out around $20 million in the form of rebate checks to 24,000 customers. The company could be on the hook for $40 million if a player dings the sign but Jordan's Furniture takes out an insurance policy before these promotions to protect itself.

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Which Baseball Team Is It Most Expensive To Go See?

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Baseball season is just beginning, time for peanuts and Cracker Jacks and a fresh hope that your team will make it to the World Series in October. Which team does it cost the most to cheer on? The annual study by Team Marketing Report reveals that the Chicago Cubs have the highest average ticket prices in baseball. The average price for Cubs tickets is $52.56, just a handful of change above the Boston Red Sox at $52.32. But the Red Sox win when it comes to a more real evaluation, the FCI. The FCI is the fan cost index, the cost for the average family of four to attend a game. The FCI takes into account prices for two adult tickets, two children's tickets, two small draft beers, four small soft drinks, four hot dogs, two programs, two baseball caps and parking for one car. An afternoon at Fenway will run you $334.78, a full $18 more than seeing the Yankees, who ruled last year with a steep FCI of $410.88. The league average FCI is $195.13.

The best bargain is the Los Angeles Angels with a FCI of $124.90. The average FCI is down as many teams are offering cheaper concession items or other discounts. The Yankees are still on top when it comes to premium seats. The Team Marketing report says the average premium seat at Yankees Stadium is $312.11, far down from last year's price which topped $500 but still steep enough for the top slot.

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Boston's Liberty Hotel Offers Red Sox Packages

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Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels, Sports

As all baseball fans (even the Yankee faithful) know, Red Sox Nation stretches far and wide. With that in mind, Boston's Liberty Hotel, which occupies a lavishly converted city jail in Beacon Hill, is offering overnight packages that include hard-to-get tickets to Fenway Park.

The offer, called Fenway Fan or Foe, includes one night's accommodations for two, a pair of Pavilion Club tickets to a Red Sox game and breakfast for two. It's available on four upcoming spring weekends: April 17-19 (when the Baltimore Orioles will be in town); May 8-10 (Tampa Bay Rays); June 5-7 (Texas Rangers); and June 19-20 (Atlanta Braves). The price starts at $725.

The 300-room hotel opened in September 2007 after a $150 million transformation of the mid-nineteenth-century Charles Street Jail. An exquisite Romanesque structure, it features exposed brick walls, wrought-iron chandeliers and an atrium (pictured) that stretches 90 feet high. Among many winks and nods to the building's old days as a lockup, the first-floor bar is called Alibi. It's located in what was used to be the "drunk tank" of the jail.

Gallery: Boston's LIberty Hotel Offers Red Sox Packages

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Ballpark Pens

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With more and more famous ballparks either disappearing or getting redone each year, these Ballpark pens might be your last chance to get your hands on a bit of history. The pens are andcrafted from salvaged wooden stadium seats. THe barrels and disc at top are made from wooden seats from historic stadiums. The pens ship with capless rollerball refill but can also use Parker style ballpoints and each is laser engraved with the name of the ballpark and years in existence. The prices vary depending on the stadium. Fenway Park sells for $250 and Yankee Stadium is $190.

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Red Sox Fans Paying Less For Series Seats

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The Red Sox may be back in the World Series but Boston fans are slightly less crazed than they were in 2004 when the Red Sox won the Series back in 2004. Ticket resellers in Boston say that their prices are down 20 to 40 percent compared with 2004. Jim Holzman, the owner of Boston-based AceTicket.com told the Boston Globe that a bleacher seat that the Red Sox sold for $75, which went for $1,200 in 2004 is now priced at $850 on his website. StubHub, the ticket business owned by eBay reports that the average price of their tickets is down about $300 to $1,465. The average price for tickets to the games at Coors Field in Denver is $781. The Rockies ticket website crashed after the team tried to sell 20,000 tickets for each game scheduled at Coors Field.

There are the dedicated fans willing to pay in the thousands for the right seat. One fan paid over $21,500 for two box seats behind home plate at Fenway. Now that's a fan.

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