WANT to buy a ticket to watch the World Series, the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) in North America?

Here’s hoping you’ve either done a lot of saving up — or that you win the Mega Millions jackpot.

Fans have been shelling out between US$700 and US$1,750 per seat, on average, depending on the game in the series between the Boston Red Sox and the Los Angeles Dodgers, according to data provided by resale companies.

“Demand has been very strong,” said Jim Holzman, chief executive of Boston-based ticket broker AceTicket.

On ticket resale websites Monday, some premium seats were listed for sale well into the tens of thousands of dollars per seat. It remains to be seen whether anyone will pay those sums, but Holzman said someone paid US$10,000 per ticket for a pair of front row seats near the visitor’s on-deck circle for the first game of the series Tuesday night at Fenway Park — the most expensive tickets his company had sold as of late morning Monday.(SD-Agencies)