How much will Rickwoodâs 2024 âField of Dreamsâ tickets cost? You might want to have a seat
Major League Baseball is coming to Birmingham.
Need tickets? Be prepared to “go the distance.”
The announcement of next year’s “Field of Dreams” game in the Magic City is still fresh, and yet there are already sites offering ticket information, albeit limited.
The San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals will play at historic Rickwood Field in the Field of Dreams game on June 20, 2024, MLB announced Tuesday morning.
Rickwood is the oldest baseball park in America, built in 1910.
It will be the third in the Field of Dreams series of games, though the first two were held in Dyersville, Iowa, on the cornfield surrounded ballpark featured in the 1989 Kevin Costner film, “Field of Dreams.”
The inaugural game was between the New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox on Aug. 12, 2021, which ended in a dramatic walk-off two-run homer for a 9-8 White Sox win.
The following season the game featured the Cincinnati Reds and Chicago Cubs at the same field, with the Cubs winning 4-2.
There is no Field of Dreams game scheduled for this season, reportedly due to an $80 million construction project at Dyersville, adding a permanent ballpark, youth fields, a boutique hotel, an RV park and an outdoor amphitheater.
Aerial photo of Rickwood Field in 2008.bn
How much can you expect to pay for the upcoming game?
Don’t expect any site to ease your pain. Tickets for the first two Iowa games have been highly sought after.
According to NBC Sports, tickets for last year’s game were going for an average price of $967 just days before the first pitch, with prices ranging from $644 to as much as $2,281 on secondary sale sites.
A set of two tickets had an asking price of $4,582 each, while three tickets together went for $3,168. And the inaugural game had an average price of $1,237.
What might you expect?
One factor in your favor – Rickwood Field, with a seating capacity of 10,800, can sell more tickets than the original Field of Dreams, which seats about 7,800 people.