Buying Chicago Cubs Spring Training Tickets

Introduction

There is a lot of interest in the Chicago Cubs this year, as the Cubs have hired Theo Epstein as their new General Manager. Many consider Epstein the finest General Manager in baseball and he brought some of his lieutenants with him and overhauled the front office. Epstein made numerous trades and totally rebuilt the team. Spring training is the first opportunity to see the new team and fans can buy tickets at a lot of different places. Let us start with the official Cubs website.

The Tickets

On the Cubs web site, individual game tickets for the 2012 Chicago Cubs home spring training games were available since January 5, 2012. Tickets sales at the Hohokam Stadium box office began January 17, 2012 at 9 a.m. Arizona time.

HoHoKam park's seating capacity is 13,074. There are over 8,000 fixed seats and 2,000 bleacher seats to complement an outfield lawn capacity of 2,575. There are many different ticket options and the prices range from an $8 lawn seat to a $31 premium field box seat. Children three and under who are on a parents lap do not need a ticket. All other attendees require a ticket and there are no discounts for children.

Traveling packages are also available on the Cubs web site. These plans take the fan into the heat of of the action with excellent game tickets and an opportunity to meet and mingle with current Cubs employees and selected players. Packages include choice of hotel accommodations with optional additional nights available, rental cars, and a custom Cubs merchandise package. Please click here to go directly to the Cubs web site.

For those who do not want to deal directly with the Chicago Cubs here are the other options:

www.stubhub.com

These tickets come with a stubhub guarantee.

www.chicagocubs.ticketliquidator.com

These tickets are reasonably priced and fans can save 15% or even more.

www.chicagocubs.ticketsnow.com

These tickets come with a ticketsnow guarantee.

www.springtrainingonline.com/teams/

This site offers a two-tier pricing plan for premium and regular tickets.

www.ticko.com/spring-training/cubs-tickets.aspx

Tickets available for all games. Fans can browse for the best available seat for any Chicago Cubs game.

www.ticketnetwork.com

The fans can enter their e-mail address and they will be alerted as soon as the tickets become available.

Sources:

http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/ticketing/index.jsp?c_id=chc

http://mlb.mlb.com/spring_training/tickets.jsp?c_id=chc

http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=chc

http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120115&content_id=26356044&vkey