Lunchtime at the Ballpark

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As many as half of all Major League Baseball teams include concessions credit in their ticket prices on certain dates or in designated seating areas. Now, at least two teams - the Cleveland Indians and the Cincinnati Reds - have made their ballparks a weekday lunchtime destination when an afternoon game is scheduled.

In Cleveland, the Indians encode $10 worth of concessions credit into $15 upper-level tickets as part of their so-called "Lunch and Three Innings" promotion. "I can walk to a nice venue and take a longer lunch hour while watching part of a game," Lisa Leemans, a senior vice president at KeyBank in downtown Cleveland told Pat Galbincea of The Plain Dealer. "It beats eating lunch at your desk." Leemans can spend her $10 anywhere at Progressive Field, but she instead chooses ballpark staples - a hot dog and soda - stating, "You can't go to a baseball game and not have a hot dog with Stadium mustard."

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