Lot # 1606: July 16, 1970 Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Cincinnati Reds Full Ticket - Inaugural Game Three Rivers Stadium/Tony Perez & Willie Stargell Home Runs!

A call for great fanfare went up in the "Steel City", when Three Rivers Stadium opened July 16, 1970, with a game between the host Pittsburgh Pirates and the visiting Cincinnati Reds. There was a parade, new uniforms, and beer was sold at a Pirates game for the first time since the early 1960s. Revisit this historic occasion, when you take up the chase for this Three Rivers Stadium opening game full ticket. Adorned on the front with a photograph of the new stadium and the Pittsburgh skyline, this vintage ticket remains crisp and very attractive, despite a crease which limits its grade to Gd+. The gloss level is pleasing, the corners are decent, and both the front and back are clean. The result of this game was a 3-2 Reds win, but the Pirates more than made up for by finishing first in the NL East Division. Plenty of postseason thrills followed during the 1970s, with Pirates winning the World Series in 1971 and 1979, to top off six division titles during the first decade of Three Rivers play.