firsts:
in 1975 toting my oldest son on my shoulders i walk into the ticket office on opening day and ask if they have any tickets. while the agent's first response looked like he was going say areyou kidding? he did a quick change and said 'someone just turned in these 2 box seats' - so i bought them for about a total of $20. they were in the first row next to the 3rd base dugout! i took a great picture that day of a big Yaz swing - in the picture- fred Lynn is on deck and thurman munson is catching. you can see it here: http://yazatbat75.homestead.com/index.html
my first ever game was the year before - with the sox leading something like 7-2 in the 6th my friends (long time sox fans) began moaning and groaning - i said what are you worried about? 'Little' did i know then that i wouldl i have to suffer like them over the next 3 decades ('86 WS, '04playoffs etc).
flash forward to 1995- taking another son to his first game - i was heading to the 'call' window for bleacher tickets' with my 5 year old in tow when a stranger tapped me on the shoulder and asked if I wanted two tickets - i said i had two - he said his were better and gve me 2 roof seats - looking straight down over home plate - watched Roger have a meltdown - 2 balks, 2 wps and a throwing error as the sox lost to the twins
