Dodger fan buys $25K worth of tickets, hopes to get Bonds' HR ball

[matcom]

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Six months ago, the Dodgers sold Michael Mahan nearly $25,000 worth of tickets. Now, like an unwelcome home run ball hit by a visiting player, they'd like to throw the whole deal back.

Mahan, 28, a Los Angeles investment banker and lifelong Dodger fan, bought every seat in Dodger Stadium's right-field pavilion for two of the last three games of the season against the San Francisco Giants, gambling that Giant slugger Barry Bonds would hit his historic 700th home run into his seats in one of the games.

Mahan has resold thousands of the tickets, requiring every buyer to sign an eight-page contract compelling them to hand over to him any Bonds home run ball they might catch. He would then sell the ball and split the money evenly with the fan who caught it, according to the contract.

Back in March, the Dodgers sold 6,458 tickets with a face value of $6 to Mahan for the standard group-discount rate of $3.50 each. But the team said he misrepresented himself in the transaction by not disclosing his plan to resell most of the tickets for as much as $15 each.

"An individual found a way to manipulate the system, and it won't happen again," Gary Miereanu, the Dodgers' vice president of communications, said Wednesday.

http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/showcase/la-sp-fan16sep16.story

[northzax]

1. is scalping legal in California?

or LA County?

[Wolfetone]

2. Good for him.

[underpants]

3. Charley Sheen did something like that a few years ago

Bought up the whole left field section in Anaheim (I think). No homeruns were hit that day.