Longtime Dodgers fan, 81, upset at organization over paper ticket issue

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The advent of mobile ticketing has largely forced the paper ticket to go the way of landline phones, dial-up internet and other commonly used products that technology has phased out.

One lifelong Los Angeles Dodgers fan is hoping the team can at least hear him out on being able to continue to print his tickets.

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Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani and Teoscar Hernández celebrate their team's win over the Cleveland Guardians in Los Angeles on March 31, 2026. (Kyusung Gong/AP)

Errol Segal, 81, told NBC Los Angeles on Friday the Dodgers told him he wouldn’t be able to buy paper tickets for the entire season. He was able to buy some paper tickets on Thursday.

Segal told the station he doesn’t know how to use a computer and only uses a flip phone.

He told the station it wouldn’t have been a major deal if he was a season-ticket holder for only a few years, but he said, he’s been one for the last five decades.

Los Angeles Dodgers' Will Smith hits a two-run home run as Arizona Diamondbacks catcher James McCann watches during the eighth inning of a baseball game in Los Angeles on March 28, 2026. (Mark J. Terrill/AP)

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"If I had the tickets one year, five years, 10 years, that’s another story," he told the station. "Fifty years I’ve had these tickets. They threw me under the bus."

Segal said the team offered to buy his tickets back, but he didn’t want to hear it.

Segal told the station he hoped the Dodgers would reconsider their stance. Fox News Digital reached out to the Dodgers for comment.

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