Does Anyone Remember Their First Major League Game?

[harmony]

Click on: http://www.backtobaseball.com/gamesiteregularseason.php?IDindex=CIN199106280

Here is a link to the box score and play-by-play:

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CIN/CIN199106280.shtml

[Michfan]

it was in Cleveland playing the Red Sox. It was Boy Scout day with some kind of a parade we marched in heading into the stadium. I'm not big on dates but it had to be around 1953.

[dustcover]

Here is a link to the box score and play-by-play:

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CIN/CIN199106280.shtml

baseball-reference is definitely a handy tool to look up baseball info, but http://www.backtobaseball.com/gamesiteregularseason.php?IDindex=CIN199106280 also provides 'visual play by play' for specific games and a host of other interesting features such as 'game simulations' by teams of different eras .

 

Just thought I'd pass this along for something to try on one of the Sox off-days, and it's raining out and you're not inclined to tackle the in house chores on the wife's to-do-list!

Edited June 4, 2016 by dustcover

[bosoxmal]

I was in Sandusky from late 1962 until mid-1967. Took my son to a couple of games each year. Also, in '67 once to Comiskey to see the Sox. And once to Toledo to see the the RS farm time (especially Reggie Smith, the coming phenom). Thanks for the memories!

[bosoxmal]

Many thanks! I see that game went 3 hrs and 20 minutes. Not much has changed! Since I got off the boat, from Germany, on Sept. 8 (and discharged September 10, I guess that wasn't the game. The only other thing I remember as a certainty was that Joe was just back from a "long" layoff because of an injury. We couldn't have been in Cam Kilmer getting discharge papers, etc, in the AM, and at Fenwy in the afternoon! That's for sure.

[bosoxmal]

Interesting. I saw a "famous" RS game in Comiskey in 1967. Elston Howard was our catcher then (How did he get away from the Yankees, I wonder) Anyway it was an important game late in the season, and we (my young son and I drove from Sandusky, Ohio the day before the game. I think the motel cost us about 6 bucks! I took him to the harness races the night before. Our right fielder won or saved the game. I don't remember how, or even his name!

[harmony]

Interesting. I saw a "famous" RS game in Comiskey in 1967. Elston Howard was our catcher then (How did he get away from the Yankees, I wonder) Anyway it was an important game late in the season, and we (my young son and I drove from Sandusky, Ohio the day before the game. I think the motel cost us about 6 bucks! I took him to the harness races the night before. Our right fielder won or saved the game. I don't remember how, or even his name!

Red Sox right fielder Jose Tartabull started that game-ending double play:

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHA/CHA196708271.shtml

 

Scroll to the bottom.

 

Carl Yastrzemski hit two homers en route to a share of the 1967 American League home run title with my childhood hero, Harmon Killianbrew. The Sox closed out the season with two wins over my Minnesota Twins to erase a one-game deficit and claim the AL crown.

Edited June 5, 2016 by harmony

[Examiner]

Here is a link to the box score and play-by-play:

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CIN/CIN199106280.shtml

 

That simulation and box score describes the last HR by Larkin going to cf/rc, but I seem to remember it going to straight away right on a line, and just clearing the wall.

[Spitball]

I remember my first major league game very vividly. I was maybe five or six years old, and we drove to Boston from suburban Topsfield. This was probably 1958 or 1959 and maybe my first time to Boston. I remember being about knee level to my parents and being too short and young to be part of the conversations. All I can remember is seeing shuffling feet and concrete covered with debris, spit, and cigarette butts. We walked up the ramp to the field level and suddenly it was like entering the land of Oz with the Green Monster, festive organ music, beautiful green grass, wonderful smells of popcorn and hotdogs, and players in colorful uniforms warming up for the game. I will never forget it.

 

I don't remember much else, but the initial introduction was very memorable. It was the beginning of my love with baseball.