World Baseball Classic tickets are selling like hot potatoes
Starting this week, baseball fans will 
face a difficult choice: Travel to Florida and Arizona for spring training or attend the first World Baseball Classic, an international tournament played largely on American soil that will attempt to become a real world series.
If you choose the latter, don’t procrastinate. Tickets are going fast. The classic will be a quadrennial tournament featuring 16 teams representing baseball-mad countries ranging from Cuba and Venezuela to South Korea and Japan.
Major-league all-stars such as Alex Rodriguez (United States), Ichiro Suzuki (Japan) and Vladimir Guerrero (Dominican Republic) have signed to play for their countries in the event, which will begin Friday and run through March 20 at Tokyo; Orlando, Fla.; Phoenix; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Anaheim, Calif.; and San Diego.
San Diego, the host city for the semifinals and finals on March 18 and 20, has already sold most of the seats at Petco Park. Individual tickets for all rounds and locations except Tokyo are available at worldbaseballclassic.com. San Diego is perhaps the tournament’s top destination and could feature blockbuster matchups such as the United States vs. Japan or Cuba vs. the Dominican Republic.
Tickets cost $15 to $60. The other first-round U.S. site is Phoenix, where Canada, Mexico, South Africa and the United States will play March 7-10.
Online bookmakers Bodog Sportsbook tipped the Dominican Republic as 1/1 favorites to win the Classic followed by the United States at 6/5. Venezuela is a distant third at 7/1 closely followed by Japan (9/1) and Cuba (10/1).
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Second-round games will be held March 12-16 at Anaheim, Calif.
