Castro: Kluber puts WS tickets to good use

CLEVELAND — Here’s some breaking news: World Series tickets — especially tickets to this particular World Series, which involves the two teams with the longest active championship droughts in baseball — are valuable. Even the briefest perusal of the secondary market would confirm as much, but the players and personnel associated with the Indians and Cubs also have that value confirmed by the sheer number of people who have come out of the woodwork (long-lost cousins, otherwise unknown neighbors, etc.) to request some assistance.

So what Corey Kluber, the Tribe’s Game 1 starter on Tuesday night, is doing with his ducats for the games at Progressive Field is admirable. And what he’s doing is what he’s done all year — making sure some kids who have gotten a tough break can have a reason to smile.

• World Series Game 1: Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. ET air time | 8 ET game time on FOX

Throughout the 2016 season, Kluber and his wife, Amanda, have been entertaining children who are patients at local hospitals and their families with special experiences at the ballpark. Before each Wednesday home game, groups of up to 10 people have been treated to a spot on the field during batting practice and, if the schedule lines up, Kluber’s bullpen sessions. They got to interact with Kluber and his teammates in the dugout, got to take in the game free of charge from some primo seats and even had their images broadcast on the giant videoboard above the left-field bleachers.

• Buy Indians World Series gear

The program, run in partnership with Cleveland Clinic Children’s, is called Kluber’s Kids.

Game Date Time (air time/game time) Matchup TV Gm 1 Oct. 25 7:30 p.m./8 p.m. CHC @ CLE FOX Gm 2 Oct. 26 7:30 p.m./8 p.m. CHC @ CLE FOX Gm 3 Oct. 28 7:30 p.m./8 p.m. CLE @ CHC FOX Gm …

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