but requires an id for any fan to pick up tickets at the stadium.

Just about every major sports league, save the NHL, has lost not only a common sense approach to the delivery of their product, but also any credibility they may have once held.
UPDATE: 4/6/21
So, MLB moves the All-Star Game from one of the blackest cities in the United States (Atlanta), to one of the whitest cities in the United States(Denver).... because of a new voting law, which they claim discriminates against people of color, thereby favoring people not of color. The national past time is a national joke.