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Get Your Tickets Here! F ans entering a sporting event need a ticket , of course. Technology has radically changed how fans search for, buy, pres- ent, and even save tickets. Longtime fans fondly pull out cardboard ticket stubs from memorable games. The pieces of paper call back memories of great events, and can even be worth big money as memorabilia. A full ticket from a 1927 World Series game sold in 2014 for more than $41,000. In the future, however, fans looking back on games in this era will not have, for the most part, ticket or ticket stubs. E-tickets are now standard for nearly all pro teams. Fans receive an email for them to print out a

The good old days: Many fans can boast of having a collection of ticket- stub memories, like these from the author’s own treasure chest.

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