On April 17, Twins fan LuAnne Nordstrom of Apple Valley went to Target Field and asked for a single seat for the matchup with the Kansas City Royals. Sorry, she was told, no ticket for you. Then she saw other people buying tickets and realized what was wrong. She was alone.
Kevin Smith, a Twins spokesman, called it a "rare situation" in which so few tickets were left that they sell them only in pairs.
"What we don't want to do is strand single tickets throughout the stadium," Smith said. "We certainly didn't mean to single her out."
Nordstrom found another lone fan, and they bought the tickets together, at $57 each. The Twins won the game, 6-5, but Nordstrom as so perturbed by her ticket encounter that she left before the game was over. She thinks the policy is discriminatory.
"A single person should be able to buy a single ticket," said Nordstrom, a retired flight attendant who's married but attends most games by herself. "It just doesn't seem right to me."
Do you agree?
