The record for most expensive sports ticket was set twice.
A full ticket from Michael Jordan's 1984 debut with the Chicago Bulls sold for $468,000, while a ticket from the 1947 debut of the Brooklyn Dodgers sold for $480,000.
The previous record for the most expensive sports ticket was $264,000, a ticket from Michael Jordan's NBA debut, which is now the third-most-expensive collectible sports ticket ever.
Mike Cole, the director of admissions for operations at Quinnipiac University, was a freshman in 1984. A lifelong Bullets fan, his father surprised him with two tickets to an October Bulls-Bullets game.
Cole asked multiple classmates to attend, but no one could go with him.
Cole hid the unused ticket, which is the only known full ticket from Jordan's debut. It went from box to box over the course of decades, a relic from a time when his father was looking out for him.
Cole said that his father was a D.C.-area lawyer and still provides for him years after his death.
Chris Ivy, director of sports auctions at Heritage Auctions, said that the 18-year-old was in a new city and no one would take him to the game.
Cole joked that he wasn't going to get a car a day before his financial fortunes changed.
Cole said he has been frugal for 55 years. I have never been to Hawaii or Barcelona.
The popularity of tickets and stubs from past sporting events has increased as a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Ivy said that tickets are riding a popularity wave like we have seen before with vintage photography.
Thousands of people go down to the basement to find items. We have to answer all of them before something like this happens.
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