I tried to get tickets to the Red Sox game a few years ago because they were playing in the Bronx on Mr. Babe's birthday. The game was sold out, so I went to Stub Hub. The halfway decent seats were going for $750 each.
Flashback to Opening Day, 1967. I cut school with some of my friends and went to the game (this was back when the Yanks really sucked and NOBODY went to their games). I think there may have only been about 20,000 people there to see the Sox vs. the Yankees. The Sox had a rookie pitcher, Bill Rohr, on the mound. He went on to pitch a no-hitter for 8 2/3 innings until Elston Howard blooped a single to break up the game. (What was odd was that Howard ended up on the Sox before the season was over).
For me, as a Sox fan, it was the best Opening Day I ever saw, and Boston went on to win the pennant (against all odds that year).
