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!
― boldbury (boldbury), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link
My mother was and is a huge Yankee hater.
So one of my first games was probably this one. Or maybe this one.
― Kerry (dymaxia), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― mattbot (mattbot), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link
hey, there will be no dropping of c-bombs in this forum.
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― earlnash, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link
2nd game was better: Jim Abbott threw a complete-game four-hitter for the Angels against the Red Sox, 8/30/89 at Fenway.
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― boldbury (boldbury), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Broheems (diamond), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:46 (nineteen years ago) link
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.)
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:07 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― John (jdahlem), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 00:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/B06030HOU1989.htm
I watched the entire thing on TV, all 22 innings of it.
― boldbury (boldbury), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 13:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 13:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 10 June 2004 01:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 10 June 2004 02:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 10 June 2004 02:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 10 June 2004 02:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shaun (shaun), Thursday, 10 June 2004 23:20 (nineteen years ago) link
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/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 January 2019 16:34 (five years ago) link