Ticket Stud or Ticket Dud? You decide ... here's Chapter 18

With these Ticket Stud or Ticket Dud stories I'm turning just a tiny bit of that energy just a few degrees away from cards (we'll still have plenty of them here) for a different kind of cardboard. What am I doing? Simple ... this is an occasional dip into some random ticket lots -- a show and tell showing something small with a story.

This time? A little something for the World Series ... and you can set it above since it didn't come from my mystery box. But there's definitely some mystery here.

Keep reading to see the details this time ... and tell me if you think it's a Ticket Stud or a Ticket Dud.

THE DETAILS ...
The Category: Major League Baseball ... parking
The Event: Los Angeles Dodgers World Series Game 4 parking lot ticket ... year unknown
The Results: N/A
The Attendance:  N/A
The Face: N/A (appeared on removed stub portion)
The Cost (for me): $8 (Hey, I thought it looked cool -- see more below.)

The Ticket Studs (Key Players): N/A
Others: N/A

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What's Buzz-worthy: I picked this up awhile back from a dealer that specializes in everything paper that somebody might ponder collecting -- stuff from all walks of life rural or suburban -- and everything from automotive brochures to circus tickets, subway passes, old used airline ephemera and then more normal stuff like advertisements, programs and stuff like that. Anything on paper. This parking lot pass/ticket was believed to be either from 1963 or 1965 and I bit since it's clean -- stuff like this can often be mangled if it still exists and I figured actual game tickets might be easier finds since people obviously kept that stuff more than this. Plus, this was cheap enough with some automotive and postseason vibes working for me. But I also bought this without much research. The odd part? The simple, functional role of these tickets is something that meant they lasted a long, long time -- there was no need to trick them up to impress rich season ticket holders or collectors in more recent years. These were functional. Beyond minor changes to the typography from more modern printing technology, this style of parking passes -- with stubs carrying more info pulled off the bottom as part of a book -- these were used from perhaps Dodger Stadium's opening in 1962 all the way up to at least 1998 based on some quick research. (After that, things perhaps changed a lot ... though I also saw this same style for the year 2000 but with dates on those versions.) And, if a generic/phantom set of World Series passes (all four games) were issued whether games were played or not in fans' parking ticket books that year, that means even my crack research of checking which years the Dodgers played a World Series Game 4 at the stadium are moot. There could be tons of these out there in booklet form with no real meaning since they were for games that didn't happen. (Was this one real? Well, it no longer has its stub ... so, maybe?) There's a good chance this was from 1963 or 1965 if it came into the dealer's hands in a lot with other stuff from that era but I'll never know. I also suspected that 1977 and 1981 were possibilities, too, with Game 4s in Los Angeles those years and the little style changes here vs. other years makes this one look very in line with an unused 1981 ticket batch I saw just today. But I'll never know unless somebody out there is a serious automotive/Dodgers aficionado and has it all tucked away in their collection.

Stud or Dud? I thought I had a stud ... but this one just might be a mysterious dud. That's kind of like how the Dodgers' season ended.

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