State Lottery unveils new Red Sox scratch ticket
By Lisa Wangsness, Globe staff
The Massachusetts Lottery and the Boston Red Sox unveiled a new $20 Red Sox scratch ticket at Fenway Park today.
The ticket offers a $10 million grand prize, which is as large as any instant win ticket prize in the world, officials said. It also offers 20 $1 million prizes and 100 Red Sox road trips.
The new ticket, which will go on sale April 8 – Opening Day – is expected to generate $23 million in aid to Massachusetts cities and towns. Only 10 million of the tickets have been printed and officials said they expected it to sell out by the end of the baseball season.
The $20 ticket is the third and most expensive Red Sox ticket the Lottery has issued. The first was a $5 ticket that went on sale two years ago and which is expected to sell out within the next few months, at which point the lottery will announce the winners of that grand prize, which is a pair of Red Sox season tickets for life.
The Lottery also announced that it is sponsoring a tour of both the 2004 and 2007 World Series trophies, with stops in 30 cities and towns throughout the Commonwealth.
