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Post by millar70 on Jul 2, 2021 21:24:22 GMT
44 years ago tonight, I walked into Fenway Park for the first time. I was 6 years old, and my eyes were as wide as a deer in headlights. July 2, 1977.
Yes, Mike Flanagan and the Orioles ruined the night by beating the Red Sox, but overall the night was incredible. Unfortunately, my favorite player, Dwight Evans was hurt, but all that meant was that Jim Rice was playing right field in front of me in my bleachers seat. The Red Sox outfield that night? Carl Yastrzemski, Fred Lynn, and Jim Rice. Not bad.....
So what are your memories of your first game that you attended? It doesn't have to be baseball, it could be any sport really. Just try to keep it to your very first experience at a game. We don't need your first time seeing every sport, just the very first time.
Have fun reliving good memories....
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jul 2, 2021 21:34:22 GMT
The first game i watched was a football/soccer game in 1992 (30 August) when i was 9 years old, between Start and Tromsø, Start won the game 1-0
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jul 2, 2021 21:36:03 GMT
September 26th, 1965 Bills 33, Jets 21. I was two, don't remember it.
May 26th, 1972, Pirates 6, Phillies 4. The Great Clemente pounded the living shit our of Steve Carlton. First game I remember
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Post by millar70 on Jul 2, 2021 21:37:32 GMT
September 26th, 1965 Bills 33, Jets 21. I was two, don't remember it. May 26th, 1972, Pirates 6, Phillies 4. The Great Clemente pounded the living shit our of Steve Carlton. First game I remember Was that in Pittsburgh or Philly? |
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jul 2, 2021 21:39:25 GMT
September 26th, 1965 Bills 33, Jets 21. I was two, don't remember it. May 26th, 1972, Pirates 6, Phillies 4. The Great Clemente pounded the living shit our of Steve Carlton. First game I remember Was that in Pittsburgh or Philly? Three Rivers Stadium.
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Post by klawrencio79 on Jul 2, 2021 21:39:45 GMT
The first game I have actual memories of was a June, 1988 game against the Expos at Shea. I definitely went to Islander games before that, but that Met game was my first ever baseball game. I was 9 years old and I loved every second of it.
David Cone started and pitched 8 innings. Bryn Smith started for the Expos and he pitched 7 (I had to look that up, I wasn't sure who started). I remember Strawberry coming to bat and it was just about the coolest thing I had ever seen, the buzz every time he stepped into the batters box. The jolt of electricity that took over the crowd, and this was back when the Mets were still riding high after the '86 series and were the preferred team in New York so Shea was packed and lively. He didn't have a great game but seeing him and the crowd reaction to him was something I'll never forget. The Mets ultimately lost in 11 innings.
It's funny, this is something I've mentioned on here a handful of times, but I feel like I grew up at Shea Stadium. I went to, I dunno, hundreds of games there and even though it was a dated stadium with a dark and cramped concourse, garbage concessions, chokepoints at every entrance and exit and overall was just a smelly shithole, it was OUR smelly shithole. Citi Field is amazing and I love going there, but Shea just had this aura about it. The Coliseum, even though I've been to tons of games there and saw some incredible moments in person, I won't be sad to never set foot inside that dogshit arena again.
Anyway, my dad took me to that Expos game and I remember it being a Friday night. When the game went to extra innings, he asked me if I wanted to stay and when I said yes, he couldn't have been happier to oblige (even though he was probably tired from working all week). He was a Yankees fan but we lived much closer to Shea and that's the team I gravitated towards (I'm sure them winning during my formative years probably played a part). I miss my father, he never skipped an opportunity to do right by me and my sisters.
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Jul 2, 2021 22:07:55 GMT
I don't have any memories specifically of my first game. I will say it was in the late 70s, Phillies at the Vet. Looking back through today's eyes, the Vet was a giant concrete toilet, but to a 12 year old's eyes, like Klaw at Shea, it was the coolest place on earth. My parents had 4 season tickets to every home Sunday game. I still remember the section - section 210, right behind first base. Not box seats but the next section higher. We'd always get there early and watch batting practice. We got a million baseballs this way and we'd fill them with autographs. I started following baseball around 76, 77, right at the time the Phillies were good. To me it was the norm, and in 1980 they won the World Series. Seemed easy at the time right? In literally every single way Citizen's Bank Park is superior to the Vet, but you never forget your first.
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Post by NJtoTX on Jul 2, 2021 22:34:37 GMT
June 20, 1965, Father’s Day, 1st ever (old old) Yankee Stadium bat day, doubleheader vs the Twins. We got seats under the upper deck way in right field behind a pole.
They gave out 40,000 bats. Everybody was getting bats signed by Mantle, Maris, Richardson, Howard, etc. I got Buddy Barker. It was a 31, too big for me.
Maris hit a HR to about 12 rows in front of us. When he came out to play the field, we all raised our bats to him.
Killebrew homered twice and the Twins swept.
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Post by Rufus-T on Jul 2, 2021 22:35:23 GMT
My first game. 7/30/1978 at Yankees Stadium. First game of a double header. Guidry struck out 10, but it was Jim Spencer who drove in the winning run in the 8th. Goose got the win. Seems like yesterday. I still can see Spencer's double that drove in the go ahead run and the stadium went nuts. www.baseball-almanac.com/box-scores/boxscore.php?boxid=197807301NYA |
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jul 3, 2021 0:06:14 GMT
June 20, 1965, Father’s Day, 1st ever (old old) Yankee Stadium bat day, doubleheader vs the Twins. We got seats under the upper deck way in right field behind a pole. They gave out 40,000 bats. Everybody was getting bats signed by Mantle, Maris, Richardson, Howard, etc. I got Buddy Barker. It was a 31, too big for me. Maris hit a HR to about 12 ross in front of us. When he came out to play the field, we all raised our bats to him. Killebrew homered twice and the Twins swept. Ray Barker? Damn, that had to be the worst bat to get. Him or Ross Moschitto.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jul 3, 2021 0:10:20 GMT
Australia vs South Africa. 2nd test. January 1994 Day 5. Let us in for free with Australia only needing 62 to win with 6 wickets in hand. Allan Donald bowled South Africa to victory by 5 runs. I would have been 12.
First test series between the two teams in 24 years following Saffers' exile for apartheid and one of the 5 closest margins in cricket history. Even at 12 I knew I'd seen something pretty special.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Jul 3, 2021 0:28:27 GMT
my first memory of a sporting even was a nba sonics & bullets game. the sonics team with payton & kemp. mainly b/c during the game, some fans got in a coffee throwing fight with each other. like hot coffee. and then the punching and the yelling commenced. and the security folks at The Capital Centre didn't really do anything.
ahhh...Landover, Maryland nights!
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Post by tristramshandy on Jul 3, 2021 7:58:28 GMT
I've mentioned this one before - - my dad took me to an Orioles game when I was a kid, late 70s. He remembers three jackasses that he wanted to kill who sat behind us who were spilling beer on us and cursing up a storm. I remember Wild Bill Hagy, the Kiko Garcia sign in the outfield, and that I was with my dad.
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Post by Zos on Jul 3, 2021 9:33:05 GMT
August 1968, Millwall beat Oxford. Though I'd been to non leagues games in 1967.
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Post by Aj_June on Jul 3, 2021 9:45:35 GMT
Australia vs South Africa. 2nd test. January 1994 Day 5. Let us in for free with Australia only needing 62 to win with 6 wickets in hand. Allan Donald bowled South Africa to victory by 5 runs. I would have been 12. First test series between the two teams in 24 years following Saffers' exile for apartheid and one of the 5 closest margins in cricket history. Even at 12 I knew I'd seen something pretty special. Wow.....that sounds so awesome.
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Post by weststigersbob on Jul 3, 2021 10:26:30 GMT
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Post by weststigersbob on Jul 3, 2021 11:31:54 GMT
Australia vs South Africa. 2nd test. January 1994 Day 5. Let us in for free with Australia only needing 62 to win with 6 wickets in hand. Allan Donald bowled South Africa to victory by 5 runs. I would have been 12. First test series between the two teams in 24 years following Saffers' exile for apartheid and one of the 5 closest margins in cricket history. Even at 12 I knew I'd seen something pretty special. First Day of Test Cricket for me was the following year in 1995, 3rd Test v England. Australia batted like an under 10’s team and were lucky to reach 100, then Gooch, Atherton and Hick ground Australia down with some dogged batting. And it rained about 5 times. Looking at the scorecard, I think I went on the most boring day of the 5. Speaking of - I seem to go on the day after something great happens in SCG Tests. Like Steve Waugh’s last ball ton. I saw him get out for 102 in the second over of the day instead. (I did see 2 fantastic hundreds though, one by Adam Gilchrist, and a better one by Micheal Vaughan). A few years later, Micheal Clarke scored 329. Missed that. Instead I saw India bat to 400 and still lose by an innings.
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Post by Rufus-T on Jul 3, 2021 16:44:25 GMT
The first game I have actual memories of was a June, 1988 game against the Expos at Shea. I definitely went to Islander games before that, but that Met game was my first ever baseball game. I was 9 years old and I loved every second of it. David Cone started and pitched 8 innings. Bryn Smith started for the Expos and he pitched 7 (I had to look that up, I wasn't sure who started). I remember Strawberry coming to bat and it was just about the coolest thing I had ever seen, the buzz every time he stepped into the batters box. The jolt of electricity that took over the crowd, and this was back when the Mets were still riding high after the '86 series and were the preferred team in New York so Shea was packed and lively. He didn't have a great game but seeing him and the crowd reaction to him was something I'll never forget. The Mets ultimately lost in 11 innings. It's funny, this is something I've mentioned on here a handful of times, but I feel like I grew up at Shea Stadium. I went to, I dunno, hundreds of games there and even though it was a dated stadium with a dark and cramped concourse, garbage concessions, chokepoints at every entrance and exit and overall was just a smelly shithole, it was OUR smelly shithole. Citi Field is amazing and I love going there, but Shea just had this aura about it. The Coliseum, even though I've been to tons of games there and saw some incredible moments in person, I won't be sad to never set foot inside that dogshit arena again. Anyway, my dad took me to that Expos game and I remember it being a Friday night. When the game went to extra innings, he asked me if I wanted to stay and when I said yes, he couldn't have been happier to oblige (even though he was probably tired from working all week). He was a Yankees fan but we lived much closer to Shea and that's the team I gravitated towards (I'm sure them winning during my formative years probably played a part). I miss my father, he never skipped an opportunity to do right by me and my sisters. Your dad sounds like an awesome person. A Yankees fan, no less (jk). I do talk to others about the Mets a lot, so people mistaken me as a Mets fan instead of a Yankees fan. If I had started to watch the Mets in the 80s, I probably would have been a Mets fan. That team was awesome. Who wouldn't admire the stance of Strawberry? Who doesn't love the dominance of Doc. The pesky Dystra & Backman? Hell, at that time, my kid sister knows nothing about baseball and she had a Keith Hernandez poster in her bedroom.
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Post by Rufus-T on Jul 3, 2021 17:25:02 GMT
my first memory of a sporting even was a nba sonics & bullets game. the sonics team with payton & kemp. mainly b/c during the game, some fans got in a coffee throwing fight with each other. like hot coffee. and then the punching and the yelling commenced. and the security folks at The Capital Centre didn't really do anything. ahhh...Landover, Maryland nights! Washington Bullets was a cool sounding name. Damn those PC activists.
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Post by klawrencio79 on Jul 3, 2021 17:31:56 GMT
my first memory of a sporting even was a nba sonics & bullets game. the sonics team with payton & kemp. mainly b/c during the game, some fans got in a coffee throwing fight with each other. like hot coffee. and then the punching and the yelling commenced. and the security folks at The Capital Centre didn't really do anything. ahhh...Landover, Maryland nights! Washington Bullets was a cool sounding name. Damn those PC activists. It was actually the decision of the owner who was close friends with Israeli PM Rabin. A few days after Rabin was assassinated, Abe Pollin unilaterally made the decision on his own.
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