BAR-GAIN: The Yankees have added cafe seating in back of the main section behind home plate for the AL Division Series at $81 a pop. (NY Post: Charles Wenzelberg)
You’ll no longer have to mortgage your house to buy the best seats at Yankee Stadium next season, but you may still have to sell your car.
The Bronx Bombers are dropping prices in 2010 for their most expensive seats. The top-priced Legends Suite seats, which cost as much as $2,500 at the start of this season, will go for up to $1,500 next year.
They’re also reclassifying about a quarter of the Legend Suites to create a section called the Champions Suite.
While the Legends Suite seats, which cost $850 to $2,500 at the start of the season, will be cheaper, they’ll still cost a hefty $650 to $1,500 next year.
An April price cut of the 48 first-row seats in the Legends section dropped them to $1,250 a piece. Season-ticket holders who had already purchased $2,500 seats were given extra tickets to make up for the discount. The team also lowered the price of 68 less expensive seats in the section from $1,000 to $650.
The new Champions Suite, made up of 538 seats formerly classified as Legends Suite seats along the foul lines, will set fans back $300 to $500 next year. Those seats had cost $500 to $1,000 in 2009.
Champions Suite ticket holders will no longer have access to the duplex restaurant behind home plate, but they will still have waiter service and access to lounges down each foul line.
Legends Suite seats behind the half of the dugouts nearer to home plate, and the section just to the plate side, will cost $800 to $1,500.
The Yankees also are cutting prices in some of the Delta Sky 360 Suite seats next year.
The seats, which are located in the second deck behind home plate, also were reduced from $750 to $550 last April. Now they’re going to be trimmed to $475 in 2010. The rest of the section, which includes waiter service, will go for $300 to $325.
A team spokeswoman declined to comment on the changes.
Last month, managing General Partner Hal Steinbrenner hinted there might a new price structure coming.
The only increase announced so far is for seats in certain sections of the main level, which will jump from $100 to $125 a game next season.