Nate Holzman paid the Brewers $1,000 for a brass ticket to any future game. He saved it for the World Series.
The Milwaukee Brewers sold 1,000 of these tickets, each good for one home game of the owner’s choosing, with no end date. Nate bought his on the first day and has held on to it for 12 years. On Friday the Brewers play their first World Series game since 1982.
18 October 2026
Image: WISN 12 News
In October 2014 the Milwaukee Brewers put a new kind of ticket on sale. It was made of brass, weighed about a pound and came on a little wooden stand. The buyer’s name was engraved across the top. It cost $1,000, and the team made only 1,000 of them.
You could swap it for a seat at any one Brewers home game you liked, whenever you liked. This is how the team put it:
Whether it’s in 2015 or 2050 or whether it is Opening Day or the 7th game of the World Series.Milwaukee Brewers, October 2014
A Brewers fan blog, Reviewing the Brew, said the offer was aimed at “the 1%.” It also said the World Series part only works if the Brewers get to a World Series.
The first day
Nate Holzman grew up in Oak Creek, just south of Milwaukee. He lives in Los Angeles now. He told WISN 12 News he bought his ticket the day they went on sale.
It sounded like a good idea. You could put down a thousand dollars and that would guarantee you a ticket for any future game of your choice.Nate Holzman, to WISN 12 News
His ticket says “Nathan Holzman” at the top. Lower down it says “Milwaukee Brewers vs Opponent TBD” and “Game date & time TBD.” Those were his to choose, and he wanted a World Series game.
The wait
The Brewers got close in 2018. They reached the National League Championship Series, one round short. The team’s chief operating officer, Rick Schlesinger, told WTMJ radio that a few owners had used their tickets, and the rest were holding on.
I think a lot of people are waiting for the World Series, which I love their optimism.Rick Schlesinger, Brewers COO, to WTMJ in 2018
The Brewers lost that series to the Los Angeles Dodgers in seven games, so Nate held on to his ticket.
This year
This season the Brewers won 103 games, the most in baseball. They beat the San Diego Padres in four games. Then they swept the Dodgers, who had won the last two World Series. Nate was at Game 3 on Wednesday.
So the Brewers are in their first World Series since 1982, and the first ever at their ballpark. It’s called American Family Field now. When Nate bought his ticket it was Miller Park, and that’s the name engraved on it. Game 1 is in Milwaukee on Friday, 23 October.
Tickets on the open market are running into the thousands. “They’re just too expensive,” Maddie Hensel, a Brewers fan, told WISN. “I can’t afford that.”
Monday
The Brewers say they are honouring every Timeless Ticket, and they are getting what they call “an unprecedented amount of emails.” Requests are handled in the order they came in. Each owner can also buy up to three more seats next to theirs, at full price.
Nate had to send in his form by Saturday. On Monday he finds out which game he’s going to and where he’ll sit.
If they can redeem this ticket for me and get me to the game as I’ve pictured in my mind for the last 12 years, it would be the best thing ever.Nate Holzman, to WISN 12 News
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