Red Sox Announce 2012 Spring Training Ticket Prices

Here’s the release from the Boston Red Sox announcing ticket prices Spring Training 2012 at their new home, JetBlue Park, Ft. Myers, FL:

BOSTON – The Boston Red Sox today announced the 2012 Spring Training ticket price schedule for seats available to the general public. 2012 marks the opening of JetBlue Park, the ballpark that sits within Fenway South, the team’s new 106-acre Spring Training and Player Development Complex in Lee County, Florida. JetBlue Park will have a capacity of approximately 11,000 (including Standing Room and Reserved Lawn), a more than 20 percent increase in capacity from City of Palms Park.

Ticket prices at JetBlue Park will range from $5 to $46 for the 2012 season. The Homeplate Dugout Box, at $46, remains the same as the 2011 price in the similar seating category behind home plate at City of Palms Park. The Reserved Lawn Area, at $5, is located above the bullpens in right-center field and occupies a larger area than the smaller sloped grass berm area at City of Palms. While most Major League clubs have yet to announce their 2012 Spring Training ticket prices, when compared with 2011 pricing, the $5 Reserved Lawn tickets are currently the lowest priced Spring Training ticket in Major League Baseball.

More than 75 percent of tickets available at JetBlue Park are $27 or less, and, like City of Palms Park, the majority of seats in the park will be in the shade.

To continue reading, click on the read more button below if you’re on the home page.

The seating bowl at JetBlue Park features identical geometry and playing field dimensions as Fenway Park, providing fans with a similar sense of intimacy as “America’s Most Beloved Ballpark.” Some seats down the left and right field foul lines are positioned immediately adjacent to the playing field and new specialty seating, such as the Right Field Picnic area ($10), give fans the opportunity to experience the game at ground level near the right field foul pole located 302 feet from home plate like the “Pesky Pole” at Fenway Park. In addition to Box and Grandstand seats in the main seating bowl, another new seating area is the Left Field Deck Seats which will feature barstool seating with drink rails ($15) and standing room positions ($10) located above the Left Field Grandstand.

A signature element of the new ballpark is a replica of the Fenway Park Green Monster, which includes three new seating categories on two different levels – Green Monster Standing Room, Green Monster Deck Seats and Green Monster Seats, located behind the 37 foot tall wall. Tickets for these categories are $15, $25 and $35, respectively. Additionally, the Green Monster Wall at JetBlue Park will feature a restored version of the actual manual scoreboard that served Red Sox fans for almost three decades at Fenway Park in Boston starting in the 1970s.

“We are proud and excited to open JetBlue Park at Fenway South for the 2012 spring training season, and once again we thank the citizens of Lee County and their elected officials for their vision and support in making this exceptional new facility a reality,” said Red Sox Executive Vice President/Business Affairs Jonathan Gilula. “JetBlue Park gives us the opportunity to make our Spring Training facility feel a little more like home, all while paying homage to the original Fenway Park, which has special significance as we celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2012. We look forward to celebrating both the old and the new with our fans next year.”

JetBlue Park sits within Fenway South, the Red Sox new Spring Training and Player Development Complex, which will provide a single, state-of-the-art, year-round site where both Major and Minor League teams can train together. The new ballpark includes improved features and amenities such as new food options, an HD video board as well as interactive family areas. The Yawkey Way experience at Fenway Park will be recreated on the road positioned immediately south of JetBlue Park during Spring Training and will add to the ballpark’s concourse with a street festival feel including entertainment, concessions and other activities.

Those interested in seeing the new Spring Training home of the Boston Red Sox take shape can visit redsox.com/jetbluepark periodically to see the latest time lapse video of the construction as well as still photos including aerial views of the ballpark. Also included on the site is video from the ground breaking ceremony featuring speeches from Lee County officials as well as members of the Red Sox front office.