Old School Design: 1976 World Series

Today's Old School Design takes a look at a classic World Series ticket design from the 1976 World Series in Cincinnati. The year was 1976 and the Big Red Machine was in full swing. Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan, Dave Concepcion, Ken Griffey, George Foster and Tony Perez were some of the famous names on the Big Red Machine.

The Reds were the defending World Series champions and faced off against the New York Yankees. The 1976 World Series only went four games, as the Reds pulled off a 4 game sweep of Thurman Munson and the New York Yankees.

This ticket stub is a classic example of 1970's graphic design. The 76 logo is perfectly stylized for the design styles of the time. The font used for the words World Series and N.L. vs. A.L. are also 70's classic type styles.

The ticket features an image of the World Championship trophy and the Reds logo featuring Mr. Red. This ticket stub was for Game 2 of the Series at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati. The price for a Loge Box seat at this historical game was only $15.00. Wouldn't you love to hop back in time and lay down a quick $15.00 to witness an event like that?

Comments

[marc]

man, that is really freakin' cool. i don't recall many tickets from the 70s that actually had quality graphics... probably because all the tickets i ever got were purchased at ticketron and looked like this:

http://mjmalouf.com/images/Queen78ForumGrnBluTicketronTix.jpg

$15! geeeeeez. i hate to point it out, jim, but if i'm not mistaken, the ticket says "loge" box and not "large." now i'm not sure about cinci, but in cleveland, the "loge" (loh-zh) is a luxury suite. $15 for a luxury box?!?! holy crap!!!!

[marc]

i guess it is different in cincinnati... "loge" seats are just the upper deck. i found a page from a book called "riverfront stadium" that had the seating chart and prices from 1981. loge seats are listed at $3, so even if the price of a loge seat was the same in '76, the cost of a ticket was jacked up 500% for the series!!! those bastards!!! :-)

[DeMarini Voodoo]

Man, The images on your site take me back to the good old days of baseball long before ESPN. Seeing old Rollie Fingers (What a Name)in his Okland A'S uni and those cool Pittsburg Pirates uni's pull up baseball memories that I forgot I had.

[Havuz]

ticket design really very nice:)