What it's like to be a Fenway Park stadium vendor

A very well-written story from ESPN's Page 2 about what it's like to be a stadium vendor at Fenway Park. You know, the hot dog guys, the beer guys who make it so you don't have to get out of your seat to still gorge yourself on ballpark hot dogs and beer.

Hot dogs are $4.75 apiece. That means for every hot dog a vendor sells, he (or she, since there are a handful of women selling stuff in the lyric little bandbox's cramped seats) collects roughly 60 cents. Bottom line: You gotta move some serious merchandise to make any serious scratch.

The night of Lester's no-no, I made a pretty penny. In the seven years I've been hawking at Fenway, I've made close to $40,000 in commissions -- which maybe sounds impressive, but since it's spread out over roughly 60 games a season it averages out to about $95 a night.

Read the whole thing. Well, I hope you read everything that I link to, but read this one especially.