CHICAGO — Fans hoping to see the Chicago Cubs play in the World Series for the first time since 1945 are finding that a seat could cost them more than what their grandparents paid for their houses.

Box seats on secondary-market sites such as StubHub were $50,000 and up, with one seller asking $100,000 for a seat and another asking for just under $1 million. But there are lots of box-seat tickets in the $5,000 to $10,000 range. Tickets to just get into the park and stand behind those with actual seats were going for more than $2,200 each. List prices for World Series tickets at Wrigley range from $85 to $565, according to Major League Baseball figures.

World Series tickets cost a lot more in Cleveland, too — well above the $83 to $750 list-price range that MLB provided for Progressive Field — but are not as expensive as those in Chicago, where ticket brokers were being flooded with calls from fans willing to pay as much as $12,000, said Dan Makras of Classic Tickets in Chicago.

Jesse Altig, a firefighter in Portland, who grew up watching Cubs games on television with his dad in the 1980s, placed an ad on Craigslist offering to show whoever gives him a ticket a tour that includes Mount Hood, the Oregon Coast and the fire station where he works.

“I am a regular guy with a family and mortgage, and these prices for tickets are kind of astronomical,” Altig said. “Maybe there’s somebody looking for an experience versus a monetary gain.”

— From wire reports