Your first baseball game....

MGLICKER

How well do you remember it?


Just joined the Cub Scouts and at 8, went to a Tigers game with my father and brother as well as the rest of the den. 1964 I suppose.

Was not much of a baseball fan until that day, but was rabid after that. Walking through the corridor and seeing the bright green diamond for the first time is etched in my memory. Can't tell you the roster or the opposing team that day, but I recall asking my older brother which guy was Willie Mays. He tried to explain the American/National league thing to me, but I felt a bit cheated nonetheless.

Hot Dogs were exceptional and probably about a quarter a piece.

Justacommeman

1967

I was told I was going to the movies for my birthday. We got on a bus and headed down Michigan Ave. As a seven year old this was cool enough in it's own right. Twenty minutes later I saw it and probably wet myself. Instead of the movie theater I saw The Tiger Stadium fast approaching. It might as well have been Oz. My parents said I was shaking. I will NEVER forgot how green the grass was when I viewed the field from the tunnel for the first time. It was a shade of green that only lives in the memories of little boys that lived for the game. My parents said I ate one of everything. The Tigers won 5-1 over the Angels with McClain pitching a complete game four hitter with 12 K's. I scored the game in my program. MJ

One month later the 1967 riots broke out and that has forever changed the city of Detroit. We moved to the burbs after that.


Side note-----------The 1967 Detroit Tiger payroll. ( Today Miggy makes 185K a game or so)

Eddie Mathews $57,500
Al Kaline $54,000
Norm Cash $43,000
Earl Wilson $34,000
Denny McLain $27,000
Dave Wickersham $24,500
Jim Landis $22,500
Fred Gladding $18,000
Jim Northrup $18,000
Gates Brown $16,000
Bill Heath $13,000.00
Lenny Green $10,000
Jim Price $7,500
Pat Dobson $6,500
John Hiller $6,000

MGLICKER

Most of the 1960's players had off season jobs.

ajaan

Trip to Washington, D.C. 1968. Baltimore vs. Washington. I still have the program around here somewhere.

lawnmowerman

Spring training at Al Lang stadium in 1983 , Saint Petersburg Fl. For those not familiar with the stadium, it was shared by the Cardinals and Mets.

Got a foul ball hit by Wally Backman. Good times!

BLUEJAYWAY

1964 bus trip, the METS at Shea Stadium. After the game there was time to go across the way to the Worlds Fair.

fiveniner

May 22nd 1960 Briggs Stadium Detroit DH against the Redsox and had the fortune of seeing Ted Williams play.
Tigers won both games WP Bunning Game 1,Aguirre Game 2 relieved by Burnside.

lawnmowerman

Cool thing about Al Lang stadium back then was the fact that it was on the water. Just a two lane street separated it from Tampa Bay. It wasn't a very big stadium so home runs were very attainable. The home run balls hit to left field would skip across the road right into the water where guys in john boats and people jumping off the seawall were waiting lol. It was loads of fun to watch as a little kid.

coinkat

This was not my first game, however, I remember it quite well... Senators v. Angels July 1969.

Anyone remember why this could be considered special?