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Article: Desperate Fans in Miami Digging Deep for Baseball Tickets.

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By Kevin Deutsch, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 6--Inside Pro Player Stadium this week, the Marlins and the Cubs will battle for any advantage they can get.

But in the stadium parking lot, fans and scalpers will fight their own battle over ticket prices. In this matchup, it's clear who has the advantage.

During last week's playoff series against the San Francisco Giants, fans shelled out as much as $150 for tickets valued at just $25.

As is the case at most postseason sporting events, ticket scalpers at Pro Player are making a killing off fans desperate to get into sold-out games.

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