Hot Dogs, Beer, & Price Information: The Triumverate
Please do consider this the consummate and most important guide to Modern Baseball yet invented.
For fans of imbibing drank and consuming meat cylinders, Baseball has long been the sport of choice. The following infographic (after the jump) offers some of the single-most important tidbits of infotainment for the industrious and economical Baseballer.
Of course we all know:
Price * Quantity = Total Bill
And likewise:
(Price * Quantity) / ((Hot Dogs + Beer) * Condiments) = Baseball
Therefore, the following observations are naturally of the greatest criticalness:
1) The Rays lead the league in pricey hot dogs. Note: The Rays price their dogs at $5.11 — just 11 cents more than the more typical $5.00 charged by many other stadiums (i.e. an extra 2.2%).
2) One must wonder if there is a correlation between cheap beers and West Coastiness.
3) Cheap hot dogs in New York. Also expensive hot dogs.
4) The fans in Oakland have little to no reason to not attend an A’s game (wealthy fanbase, cheap baseball experience). Except, of course, the fact they have to watch the A’s.
5) Average attendance went up, but did stadium capacity also increase or something? I thought the league was supposed to be having a down year attendance-wise this year.
Behold the infographicness:
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| “Ballpark Prices” infographic courtesy of WEBstaurant Restaurant Supplies |
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I went to Camden Yards a lot this year and never had one of those $2 hot dogs. They were $4 I think. And beers there were $8, not cool. A lot of people ended up pre-gaming and then going to Pickles behind left field after the game instead of paying the big bucks for a Bud Light.
I’m not sure how recent this data is, but the Orioles got a new food vendor this year, and as a result some of the prices were inflated.
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2010-10-05/business/bs-bz-orioles-reject-aramark-20101005_1_aramark-food-service-david-freireich
Whoa now I was just at Yankee Stadium last year and it was like 8-9 dollars per beer.
Yeah seriously, what year are these prices? At AT&T park beer is definitely more than $7 I think it’s closer to $9
If you look at the “sources” on the graphic, some of the articles are clearly dated 2008 and 2009.
any idea if these prices include taxes and so on? From what I can see, the prices on the graphics are a bit lower than what I’ve actually paid for beer, and i’m guessing it has to do with taxes
how are there 31 ballparks?
I’d totally understand if it said 29 or 28 (it’s an open question whether those things in Oakland and Tampa can be consider “major league ballparks”. But 31 has to be a typo.
If the data spans more than one season, there may be old and new stadiums included.
I think the beer here is a trick. At PNC, they do sell a small beer for 5 dollars, may be 12 ounces, but they also sell the 20 ounce beer for around 7.50 and sell bottles and cans for that same price. Not many people buy the small beer unless they just want one or two to hit the spot.
Same with Angel Stadium. The $4.50 beer is basically Dixie cup size. To get anything substantial you have to pay $7.50-$9.00.
Beers are about $10 at Rogers Centre and Hot dogs are definitely north of $5