HH

[Benjamin Grimm]

Got this e-mail from a fan. The HH thing rings a bell, but I can't place what it might mean.

Can anyone tell me if the letter designation, such as HH, instead of an actual date, on Shea Stadium ticket stubs, has any significance? In other words, can it be traced to any particular game? Thank you.

[bmfc1]

Games on the High Holidays (Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur).

[Guest Kong76]

They put HH on tickets instead of the date for Jewish holidays?
I'd like to see an image of one of those tickets. What years are we
talking?

[bmfc1]

Kong76 wrote: They put HH on tickets instead of the date for Jewish holidays? I'd like to see an image of one of those tickets. What years are we talking?

Sorry. I was kidding.

[Guest Kong76]

Sorry. I'm gullible.

[bmfc1]

All of these losses are making us loopy.

[Benjamin Grimm]

My guess is that they're tickets redeemable for General Admission on any date; but as I said, it's just a guess. And I have no idea what HH would stand for in that scenario.

[Guest Kong76]

Home Hospitality
Horn and Hardart
Homer Horowtiz

I hope the mystery is solved soon!

[ashie62]

Complimentary

[G-Fafif]

House Held, as in comps, as in House Seats as on Broadway?

I like High Holidays better. That's highly hilarious.

[ashie62]

G-Fafif wrote: House Held, as in comps, as in House Seats as on Broadway? I like High Holidays better. That's highly hilarious.

Yes...Everyday should be a holiday.

[Frayed Knot]

Ashie62 wrote: G-Fafif wrote: House Held, as in comps, as in House Seats as on Broadway? I like High Holidays better. That's highly hilarious. Yes...Everyday should be a holiday.

And on every holiday you should get high.

[Guest Kong76]

House Held sounds good.
Again, what years are we talking here?
When I used to get free tickets from various sources many many
years ago they just had a hole punched in them ... like free albums
back in the olden days used to have notch in them or corners missing.

Why is the HH in place of the date though?

[Frayed Knot]

Houses of the Holy

[Vic Sage]

Broadway house seats are not complimentary; they're simply the best seats in the house, reserved by contract to artists and orgs involved in the production, and cost what they cost.

[G-Fafif]

Thank you for the clarification. There goes that HH theory.

[Willets Point]

Ha Ha. You have a ticket but you don't know what day it will be accepted. Ha Ha.

[G-Fafif]

For at least the last 30 years of Shea, a comp was indicated by a hole punched in the ticket. Perhaps HH mean Hole Here.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Kong76 wrote: Again, what years are we talking here?

I have no idea. I wrote back to the guy to ask him to share a scanned image, and he says he will but I haven't received anything yet.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm not so sure they just weren't a meaningless placeholder --- a way to set the printing plate so it wouldn't imply any other meaning.

Double letters had some leverage in marketing back then. I associate seeing HH on my tickets with seeing RR on subway trains, LL on an elevator buttons, and FF on my comic books.

[G-Fafif]

It's the Mets. There's no chance it makes any sense.

[ashie62]

Hubert Humphrey

[Benjamin Grimm]

Turns out it's not actually HH after all. I finally received the images this morning:



The face values of the tickets should give a clue about the year in which they were printed.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Just bumping this in case the previous post, with the images, got lost in all the flurry over the Omar and Jerry firings.

I have another Mets photo mystery that was presented to me today. I'll get that one posted in the next day or two.

[Guest Kong76]

No dates on the tix doesn't make much sense, and him
throwing in the HH thing in doesn't either.

Gotta love rainy day Mr. Met though.

The metstery continues ....