You guys mention freebies being handed out, Indycar hands out bucketloads of them at each race, to help boost attendance (and still nobody showed up the finale in California)
Usually one can walk into a local Honda or Chevy dealer and they'll hand you a fistful of comp tickets.
Funny thing happen to us a couple of years ago at the Indycar race at Kentucky Speedway. We parked in a lot near the track and hopped on a shuttle bus to take to the track, the bus just drove us straight into the track! Never even checked us for tickets. Basically if you bothered to show up, they were going to let you in. But they still couldn't put enough butts in seats to keep a title sponsor interested, and the race has been dropped from the calendar.
JDS, no offence taken at all, the name World Series is a bit OTT, but I guess one has to view it in the context of the era, when the baseball championship was first played, and that name was applied to it. Baseball was only played in the US at that time, so yes, I suppose it was a "World Series". The name's stuck, yes its outdated and inaccurate in a literal sense, but it is just baseball...
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