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MLB Tickets - Food Deals at Major League Ballparks

Filed Under Baseball 

With the economy on the downturn and expendable income dropping faster than the Dow, people might not be too excited about paying the normally extravagant fees they usually cough up for ballpark concessions. Like most retail and food service industries, Major League Baseball’s stadiums were expecting to feel the crunch this year. So that’s why they’re taking immediate, drastic action. Major League Baseball has created a specific website, the Fan Value Corner (found easily at MLB.com), that has a listing for every team, an organized list of all the great promotions that the teams are offering, from individual tickets to hot dog deals to season tickets and memorabilia giveaways. Of course, the best place to get sold out MLB tickets is to look online, but if you want to find the right concession deal, there are all kinds of things to choose from.

Many teams are selling all-you-can-eat seats. Most of these all-you-can-eat deals work like this: If you get seats to a specific section of the park, you’ll be able to go to the concession stands in that particular section and order whatever you want and as much of it as you want, and you don’t pay a dime. Some rules apply when it comes to alcoholic drinks, thought, and you usually can’t get concessions at other booths around the stadium, just the one that’s in the special section. This is a great deal if you’re trying to get by on a slim budget. Don’t eat breakfast, don’t eat lunch. Just wait until you get to the ballpark and go crazy on hot dogs, hamburgers, nachos, pizzas, soda, and cotton candy whatever you want. This is not recommended if you are a high risk for heart attack, but mothers who are pregnant might want to consider this if they get a craving for peanuts and ice cream.

Another popular concession promotion is a family pack. Usually with family pack specials, a team will offer a reduced price on a package that includes tickets and concession items. You can find a deal such as four tickets, four hot dogs, four sodas and four peanuts for around $40 or $50. This is a great way to get out to the ballpark with the family on the cheap. Buying that kind of loot outside of the package deal and you’re looking at closer to $80. Even if you and your spouse only have one child, this still usually works out to a good deal with the level of savings we’re talking about here.

Another popular way to get families out to the ballpark is kid deals. If you’ve got some youngsters around, look out for deals that can give them hot dogs and sodas for cheap. Sometimes ballparks will even have complete hot dog giveaways for kids on special kids day promotions.

Speaking of hot dogs, be on the lookout for dollar dog deals. A hot dog for a dollar is a great deal. At many ballparks hot dogs can inflate to about $3 on a regular day. Dollar dog days of summer are the way to go if you need lot of weenies on game day.

Some ballparks went out of their way to make things easier on fans by freezing prices- not just on certain ticket sections in the ballpark, but also on concession items. While the immediate value can’t compete with the specials on certain days and promotional options, it’s a nice gesture.

Both the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics are offering certain “bring your own food days.” If you’ve got a big gang of people coming out to the ball park, or if you like to eat certain foods that don’t usually show up on the concession menu board, this is an awesome opportunity to save some dough and eat great for cheap.

Some teams are more magnanimous with food deals than others. The Cleveland Indians, Houston Astros, Minnesota Twins, Oakland A’s, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Diego Padres, Texas Rangers, Toronto Blue Jays and Seattle Mariners are well above the curve when it comes to giving the people both bread and circuses.

Written by Brent Warnken, sponsored by StubHub. StubHub sells MLB tickets, sports tickets, concert tickets, theater tickets and more to just about any event in the world.

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