World Series Ticket Prices Leap Up After Cubs' Game 5 Win

Secondary ticket prices for two potential World Series-clinching games at Progressive Field "have surged" since the Cubs won Game 5 last night to extend the series. Online broker TicketCity showed the median unsold price for tomorrow's Game 6 "more than doubled" to $3,840, up from $1,570 before Game 5 was played. The Game 7 median price has "also gone up, albeit not as much" from $1,700 before Game 5 to its current $2,055. That price likely will "skyrocket if a Game 7 becomes guaranteed" (CBSSPORTS.com, 10/31).

Meanwhile, a StubHub spokesperson said that about 27% of the "tickets being sold on the site for Tuesday went to credit cards associated with Illinois Zip codes" (AP, 10/31).