Spring Training Baseball

[kristielee]

Do any DVCer's know if we get a prepurchase advantage of spring training tix? Or any other perk? How hard is it to get tickets? Tried to get Sox tix a couple of years ago in Ft Myer's and didn't have a prayer. We have a ressie booked again for March and a ball game would be a blast. Thanks, Kristie

 

[lllovell]

Keep an eye on the website. I think the tickets go on sale in January (but dont let that keep you from looking in December if you missed them I would be sad).

We have often gone down for a game (one during each of the last two years) and have not had trouble getting tickets for a weekday/night game, but ones on the weekends can be hard to get without ending up in the "grass" seats.

( I just looked at last year's "special events" page on the disney website...and they have already updated it for 2006 where you can save it to your favorites and when a release date for the tickets comes about, it will be posted there with a link)

Good luck getting the seats you want! (but I think you will have no problem at Cracker Jack)

Laura

 

[athenna]

Keep an eye on the website. I think the tickets go on sale in January (but dont let that keep you from looking in December if you missed them I would be sad).

We have often gone down for a game (one during each of the last two years) and have not had trouble getting tickets for a weekday/night game, but ones on the weekends can be hard to get without ending up in the "grass" seats.

( I just looked at last year's "special events" page on the disney website...and they have already updated it for 2006 where you can save it to your favorites and when a release date for the tickets comes about, it will be posted there with a link)

Good luck getting the seats you want! (but I think you will have no problem at Cracker Jack)

Laura

Thanks for the heads up, lllovell!
I am taking dad again in March (hey gotta use that AP of his) and thought it would be great to see a Braves Spring Training gane at Cracker Jack. I'll have to check out the special events page. Didn't think they'd have info so early!

 

[JimMIA]

They had a Spring Training special event for DVC members only last year. I think it included skybox tickets and food...not sure what else. Everybody I've heard of going said it was a super event and they can't wait until next year.

Hopefully they'll schedule it for a braves-Marlins game!

 

[kristielee]

Thank you all for the replies...I'll check out the WDW site now. Should be a lot of fun. I'd love to go to a members" event at a game.

 

[BillM]

I went to the DVC event at the Braves game, They had two last year and I went to the first one. I also bought several tickets to three other games.
As for the DVC event. It was OK. The cost was $54 per person, ticket included. The food was sandwiches, salad, cookies, drinks. They had a
cash bar. They had two skyboxes. Seeing the game was difficult unless you were lucky enough to get one of the seats. Others had to sit back at the tables with no real view of the game.
The fun for viewing the spring games is to be up close to the players. I bought tickets for the other games thru Ticketmaster. If you will go to the Braves web site this fall and find a link to the spring training. You can pull up a seating chart for Cracker Jack Stadium. Also they will tell you when the date is for individual game ticket sales begins. Call Ticketmaster on that date and select the area you would like to sit. I would recommend the lower tier in the shade.
This worked for me. I had tickets 12 rows back behind the visitor dug out. I would recmmend the first base line.
Good luck.

 

[JimMIA]

I would recmmend the first base line.

Is that because of the sun? And is that visitor, or home side?

Thanks for the info. We went to Marlins spring training in Jupiter (beautiful facility and better food than our home games at Dolphins Stadium!) last year, and I agree, being up close is a big plus.

 

[dianeschlicht]

We are doing Disney in March followed by a few days in Fort Myers for Twins spring training camp. I wouldn't mind taking in a Braves game though too. The Twins tickets get sold out by the end of January. I'd be surprised if you could snag last minute Braves tickets.

 

[PamOKW]

DVC sometimes does offer specials -- like the big event they did for the first time this year. Also, Disney seems to have started some "packages" of games in addition to season tickets for Spring Training. You can keep an eye on www.atlantabraves.com for the schedule and when ticket sales will start. I agree that it's sometime in early January -- and I know the Yankee and Mets games usually sell-out the first day.

 

[justKim]

I'd love to take my family to a game, but I know nothing about spring training. I know that you can't get the tickets yet, but is spring training always at the same time? I'd like to make reservations earlier than January.

 

[AJKMOM]

I did a Google search for "baseball spring training in Florida" and came up with a great website. It showed where all the Florida spring training camps were. While at VB last spring, we went the day before and got 3 tickets at Dodgerland. After that, we planned to attend at Braves game, but the CM at BWV gave us bad directons how to get to Wide World of Sports, so we missed the game.

 

[TnRobin]

For you Mets and Dodgers fan.

Vero Beach is where the Dodgers train and the Mets train at Port St. Lucie which is just a short drive away. I booked out tickets for this year's Mets Spring training shortly after Xmas. Yes they do go quickly so keep watching the MLB website for when they go on sale.

 

[JimMIA]

I believe this is the website referenced above: http://www.springtrainingonline.com/

It seems to have a lot of information on Spring Training. If you like baseball, I'd strongly recommend Spring Training. It's very relaxed, you can often talk to the players, get autographs, etc, and the whole atmosphere is great.

If you want to go to Spring Training in Florida, I'd go next year. A number of the teams are considering moving to Arizona. At least two are currently in temporary situations through 2006 only, and then they're probably gone. I think it's also likely that we will lose at least one of our two major league teams next year, maybe both, and that will make the situation worse.

There was a measure in the Florida Legislature to provide funding to stop that, but the President of the Senate would not let the bill be put to a vote, so it died. The Florida House has always supported baseball, but our state senate and governor are anti-baseball.

There are currently still 18 teams training in Florida and 12 in Arizona, but Arizona has put a lot of money into creating first-class facilities. If 4-5 teams move to Arizona, pressure will build to move everything there because of the economies of having everybody in one general area...like we once had in Florida.

 

[justKim]

I can see that the schedule of games isn't out yet, but is there a typical begin and end period for the spring training season?

 

[PamOKW]

Spring Training is basically the month of March. Schedules are announced and tickets go on sale in late December/early January.

The tickets for the Atlanta Braves training camp at WDW are more difficult to come by than tickets for other camps. There are just a lot more people concentrated at WDW who want to see the games.

Jim, thanks for the heads up. My brother a baseball fanatic keeps saying "some day" he'll go to Spring Training. I've already started making rough plans -- I'll have to give him a real push to do it this year.

 

[justKim]

Thanks Pam. We are already planning a February trip, I may have to bite the Fri-Sat points bullet and plan a long weekend in March too. I've been wanting to get my parents down to WDW, and I think I could lure my dad the Braves fan with a spring training trip.

 

[PamOKW]

It's possible there might be some games at the end of February -- so be sure to check it out.