Soaring ticket prices at big league games together with high concession prices and parking fees and heavy traffic have helped the minor leagues thrive.

To factor in concession prices is to assume an all-purpose calculating mind that moviegoers simply don't possess.

Then there was the waste patrol, unleashed by a chief who had long ago insisted that his children take their own popcorn to movies to avoid inflated concession prices.

The team fared poorly on the field, and faced financial difficulties owing to no television coverage, a stadium with problems, and the highest ticket and concession prices in the league.

These days, high ticket and concession prices, along with expensive parking fees, at major league stadiums have helped tip the scales toward the lower-cost minor leagues.

The film was not a massive success at the local box office, due in part to the fact many of the tickets were bought by children at concession prices.

Hope Arty doesn't raise those concession prices that he promised to keep low to keep people coming.

Gulfstream is celebrating its 50th anniversary and is rolling admission and some concession prices to 1939 levels on opening day.

Nor are they deterred by the steep admission and concession prices: $2.50 for grandstand admission, $6 to get into the clubhouse, and $4.45 for a deli sandwich.

The convenience of New Jersey left only the rain, the last-minute confusion and disorganization, the steep concession prices and the rules to weed out the less-determined music fans.