The Value of a Dollar!

Did you know that the average ticket price for a ticket to a baseball World Series game in 1905 was only 75 cents! In the year 2000, the price would have been $14.71! In the year 2000, the average price of such a ticket was $131.42! (There were 5 games played in the series each of these years.)
This information (and other related monetary and cultural information) can be found in The Value of A Dollar: Prices and Incomes in the Unites States, 1860-2004" on p. 629.
(Ref HB235 .U6 V35 2004)

This reference volume has a companion: The Value of A Dollar: Colonial Era to the Civil War, 1600-1865. (Ref HB235 .U6 V358 2005)