Sports Teams Score a Piece of the Ticket-Scalping Business – Wall Street Journal

Sports teams are getting into a business that they used to both envy and scorn: ticket scalping.

The National Hockey League’s Los Angeles Kings last month emailed a letter to ticket brokers about the team’s new resale policy: Brokers who want to buy season tickets must pay slightly more than fans do for the seats; can buy only a limited number; and can resell them electronically only through a platform run by AXS. That’s the…