Major League Baseball’s Oakland A’s are now selling two-person tickets for an upcoming series for Dogecoin.
The Oakland Athletics are accepting Dogecoin for tickets to their upcoming series against the Toronto Blue Jays at RingCentral Coliseum. Two-seat pods in the infield plaza are being offered for 100 DOGE, and the Dogecoin-themed promotion — which began yesterday — runs through Thursday. The MLB club confirmed it has already sold several tickets, making this one of the first known sports ticket purchases completed with the meme cryptocurrency.
Normally, the pair of seats would cost roughly $80 when paid in U.S. dollars. At the time of writing, DOGE trades at about $0.445 (up around 14% in the last 24 hours), meaning fans pay a modest discount when using the meme coin for the purchase.
“Join us at the ballpark when the Blue Jays come to town! Two-seat infield plaza pods available for 100 dogecoins for the series,” the team posted on Twitter.
MLB noted in its press release that the Athletics are the first team in the league to accept crypto payments for tickets. In March, the club also offered full-season suites — normally priced at $64,800 — for one bitcoin (worth about $56,200 at the time).
Fans who wish to pay with DOGE must complete a form before making the purchase through payment processor BitPay. Tickets are then delivered via the MLB Ballpark App.
This move follows a similar initiative by the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, which began accepting Dogecoin for merchandise and tickets two months earlier. Mavericks owner Mark Cuban reported the team had earned roughly $122,000 in DOGE from those sales by mid-April.
Dogecoin has seen notable gains in recent weeks. Its total market capitalization rose nearly 17% in the last 24 hours to about $59 billion, according to CoinMarketCap. That rise recently put DOGE ahead of the stablecoin Tether, placing it fifth by market cap among cryptocurrencies.
Dogecoin’s market value also exceeds that of several large-cap companies listed in the S&P 500, including automaker Ford and social media company Twitter. Qiao Wang, a former Messari entrepreneur, suggested that if Dogecoin were included in the S&P 500, it would rank within the top 150 companies by market capitalization.