Ticket to first game at Fenway Park sells for $30k

Ticket for Red Sox game April 20, 1912, is only one graded by PSA

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The program for the first game at Fenway Park sold for $12,600, and the ticket went for $30,000. (Credit: Huggins & Scott Auctions)

A ticket to the first game at Fenway Park — played five days after the Titanic sunk in 1912 — sold for $30,000 on Thursday night at Huggins & Scott Auctions.

The ticket was for April 20, 1912, which was supposed to be the second day of the season's first homestand, but opening game was rained out.

So, on that day, a crowd of roughly 20,000 witnessed the Boston Red Sox beat the New York Highlanders 7-6 in 11 innings, thanks to the bat of Tris Speaker.

The ticket ranks as the only one to the April 20 game PSA has ever graded. PSA has graded two tickets to the April 19 game, which were valid for admission the next day.

The fan paid $1 ($33 in today's money) to get into the game and sit in the reserved seat. Huggins & Scott also sold a program from the first game for $12,600.

The program had an ad announcing an opportunity for the players. If a player hit a batted ball on the fly to the Bull Durham sign on the field, they would receive $50 cash. If they hit the sign on a home run, they would receive 72 "five-cent packages" of Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco.

Fenway is the oldest park in the majors that is still in use.

Darren Rovell is the founder of cllct.com and one of the country's leading reporters on the collectibles market. He previously worked for ESPN, CNBC and The Action Network.