Well, Forbes recently valued the franchise at $1.8 billion.

http://www.forbes.com/teams/chicago-cubs/

I recommend that you start at $1.5 billion and negotiate up from there. If you catch the Ricketts Family on the right day, you might get lucky.

The price always plummets after June.

Boston Pinball lists 1550 average on 36 sales (but none this year). There are plenty of non-pinheads that would just love to have this for their basement bar. Unfortunately, interest will probably be much more limited out your way. You may want to consider listing it on ebay..

Edit: I think that price seems quite high, but given that this also hits a sports memorabilia market, I could see it justified.

I have seen them sell for $2500 before, looking for one for a freind, I think 15-1800 is probably what you will pay unless you can find a project one, cubs fans are awfully diehard, and Id get one now, they havent won a world series since you could tie horses outside wrigley, they have some sick talent now, get one before the cub mania...

I agree on 1500-2500. It's shocking that the game sells for that much but it is hard to find and certainly a cross collectible machine. It just so happens to be a decent pinball game as well.

Obviously it sells for more in Cook County than anywhere else.

But come to think about it, just about everything is more expensive in Cook County than anywhere else.