Speaking of Ed Sullivan, something that didn't happen on his show in 1963 was a scheduled performanc

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Pitcher Sandy Koufax, left, and catcher John Roseboro celebrate in Los Angeles enterprise car rental used car sales on Oct. 6,1963, after the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the New York Yankees 2-1 to take the 1963 World Series in four straight games.
Ticket prices for the series, like stock prices, are changing nearly every day. In the secondary enterprise car rental used car sales market, online ticket broker TiqIQ has the current average price for a game at $1,291, with seats at Boston's Fenway Park averaging $1,519 and those at Busch Stadium in St. Louis at $962.
Hot dogs sell for around $7 to $9 each. A 12-ounce can of beer will go for between enterprise car rental used car sales $5 and $8 at both Fenway Park and Busch Stadium. Programs will run about $15 each, and parking will likely enterprise car rental used car sales cost around $20.
It's clear the rate of inflation has hit the World Series as it has in all aspects of life. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , it would take $7.64 today to equal the buying enterprise car rental used car sales power of a dollar in 1963.
A look back in 1963 shows how prices have changed: Both Mickey Mantle of the Yankees and Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants signed what were then record contracts for $100,000 a year. Dodger pitcher Clayton Kershaw is expected to sign a multiyear contract in 2014 somewhere in the range of $30 million a year. A first-class stamp was five cents. They're 46 cents now and could go up to 49 cents next year. A Hershey's chocolate bar was a nickel. They go for around $1 now. A gallon of gas was 25 cents. The average price today is around $3.44 for regular gasoline. A gallon of milk was 49 cents. Now it's close to $4 or more. The average yearly household enterprise car rental used car sales income for Americans was $5,623. Today it's around $52,000. The average price of a new home was $12,650. Today it's around enterprise car rental used car sales $318,000. The national minimum wage was $1.25. Now it's $7.25. (States can set their own minimum wage: In Oregon it's $8.25 an hour. In Arkansas it's $6.25). A pay phone (remember them?) could be used for a dime. We won't try and figure out what a cellphone bill would be like today, other than to say it's MUCH higher. As prices have risen, so to has the population. In 1963, there were approximately 189 million people in the country. Now, there are more than 315 million.
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Also making its debut on TV in 1963 was "The Fugitive" starring David Janssen. It lasted until 1967 and had one of the highest ratings at the time for its final episode, when the one-armed man who killed enterprise car rental used car sales Dr. Richard Kimble's wife finally came to justice.
Popular movies that came out in 1963 included "The Great Escape" with Steve McQueen, "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" with a cast of comedy icons and "From Russia With Love" with Sean Connery as 007. The first Bond film, "Dr. No," was released in 1962.
Speaking of Ed Sullivan, something that didn't happen on his show in 1963 was a scheduled performance by Bob Dylan. The singer-songwriter was supposed to appear on the show in May of that year but canceled the gig after censors rejected enterprise car rental used car sales the song he was going to sing .
Dylan was going to perform "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues," a satirical number about the conservative John Birch Society. A few days earlier, Dylan played it for Sullivan, who seemed to have no issue with it.
One thing that has remained constant, in terms of baseball since 1963, has been Vin Scully. The 86-year-old broadcaster enterprise car rental used car sales for the Dodgers is still going strong and will be back next year. He actually started as voice of the team in 1950 when they were the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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