The Yankees are pulling ahead in the Subway Series of seat sales.
Plastic seats plucked from the old Shea Stadium remain warehoused after seat-sales slumped like the Mets’ inaugural season at Citi Field. Meanwhile, the Bombers’ seat-sales are soaring.
The city says 10,311 seat pairs out of the 16,000 Shea seats put up for sale in August 2008 have been sold at $869, a number representing the team’s World Series-winning glory years of 1986 and 1969.
About 15,000 seats from the House that Ruth Built have been sold, despite their higher price of $1,499.99 a pair and having only been on sale for eight months.