After I posted that item about the Cubs below, one of my loyal readers, Bill from Chevy Chase, wrote in to say:

"You know what would be a really good web page, and a useful public service? An authoritative list of scalping laws in all major sports markets. I know some jurisdictions don't even allow you to sell your tickets at or below face value. "It also would be interesting to see how much of the legal prohibitions were initiated by the professional teams."

That is a fantastic idea. Does anyone know if something like this exists? There are new services available like StubHub.com to help with getting tix, and people get them thru eBay and CraigsList and broker services, but this would help the casual fan on a road trip a lot.