what was your first game?

The first one I can locate the specific details of: June 16, 1973. Mets and Jerry Koosman beat San Diego, 10-2. Willie Mays hit his 656th homer... and returning Vietnam POWs were honored in a pre-game ceremony.

The first one I have any clear recollection of was a Cubs-Astros tilt in '87 in which Nolan Ryan threw a complete game. The Astros won with the go-ahead run scoring on a bases-loaded triple by 3B Sonny Jackson in the 7th or 8th inning.

huh.

And I think I may have found the earlier one. It's the only Friday night home game against the Padres in '80. If that's the game I was at, then I saw Rollie Fingers get the save that night!

My mother was and is a huge Yankee hater.

So one of my first games was probably this one. Or maybe this one.

hey, there will be no dropping of c-bombs in this forum.

2nd game was better: Jim Abbott threw a complete-game four-hitter for the Angels against the Red Sox, 8/30/89 at Fenway.

I can totally remember my first hockey game though, a Red Wings 5-4 win over the Winnipeg Jets at the Joe. My dad took me early to watch skate-around, and Reed Larson threw me a practice puck! I still have it, too - in fact it's right here on my desk! I don't think they have old box scores for hockey, though.

First game I remember well - Nolan Ryan's seventh no-hitter, front row seats a little past third, got Roberto Alomar's autograph before the game, I actually had written out an entire box-score predicting the no-hitter in my school journal that day. (note: I was a fucking nerd about stats and stuff when I was little. I played in my first for-money rotisserie league in 1990 and cleaned house w/ Cecil Fielder, Bob Welch and Bobby Thigpen. Not having a job and spending all summer watching baseball might have helped.)

me at 20 is disturbingly like you at 10. except i'm not making any money.

my first game (i think): http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/B07130SLN1998.htm it was a locally organized trip, and not terribly memorable. i was glad it went into extra innings, althoug nobody else seemed to be. upper deck seats, but we snuck down lower in the mid-innings and still lower in the late ones. it was the mark mcgwire show that year, of course, and he failed us on that night. i barely remember any other details (some comments about what a hoss gary gaetti was). i wasn't much of a baseball fan in those days but i understood the magnitude of that HR race as well as anyone. a fun summer, i'm sure.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/B06030HOU1989.htm

I watched the entire thing on TV, all 22 innings of it.

nice interview w/ Retrosheet founder Dave Smith; reminiscences of research by snail mail and floppy disk

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/effectively-wild-episode-1318-the-keeper-of-the-game/