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Post by unitspin on Oct 23, 2020 12:47:55 GMT -5
This is irrelevant to this comment. But I saw your Phil plantier post. I got a story for ya. My cousins getting married im his best man for his gift I put together a custom frame with an autograph pitcher and all his rookie cards. When I gave it to him we both died laughing for a half hr. Back in the day he was the biggest plantier fan that a 7 yr old could be as far as he was concerned at 7 plantier was ted Williams. Next time I'm over his place in going to make sure its still up in the man cave. |
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Oct 23, 2020 12:56:56 GMT -5
This is irrelevant to this comment. But I saw your Phil plantier post. I got a story for ya. My cousins getting married im his best man for his gift I put together a custom frame with an autograph pitcher and all his rookie cards. When I gave it to him we both died laughing for a half hr. Back in the day he was the biggest plantier fan that a 7 yr old could be as far as he was concerned at 7 plantier was ted Williams. Next time I'm over his place in going to make sure its still up in the man cave. Phil Plantier came up in 1991 and had a blazing hot bat. Mo Vaughn came up around that time, too, and was higher regarded. But by Aug/Sep 1991 you weren't so sure. Plantier was smashing HR after HR and was hitting around .330 And the Red Sox went from dead in the water to back in the pennant race. They were 50-58 and then went 31-9 to get within 0.5 games (actually within 1 Jeff Reardon strike to Roberto Kelly) of first place. Then they collapsed down the stretch going 3-11 to finish at 84-78. I thought Plantier would be a star and it would be a matter of time before he'd top 30 HRs in a season - and he did, but for the 1993 Padres. Even though Plantier struggled like everybody else did in 1992, I was disappointed when they traded him for Jose Melendez, who was injured virtually the entire time he was in Boston. Plantier was never the same player after 1993, but that name brings back memories, of a time all you had was hope for better days and no memories of any championships. |
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Oct 23, 2020 21:41:42 GMT -5
I responded to a tweet today that I thought would make a fun thread. What was your first baseball game (first that you remember if that's the best you can do)?
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Post by swingingbunt on Oct 24, 2020 19:41:10 GMT -5
I think we went to the game the night before, but the first I remember was when I was in the OF bleachers when this happened.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Oct 25, 2020 10:57:24 GMT -5
Epic!
I was at Game 3 of the 2003 ALCS, which most folks remember now for the Pedro-Don Zimmer incident, but that whole game was a circus. People forget about the incident in the Yankee bullpen as well.
I was there with a friend who is a Yankee fan. At the time, my general practice was to wait out the awful lines at the T inside the McDonald's right next door, but as we left the park and saw fights break out to either side of us, we decided that just getting tf out of dodge and dealing with the crowds was the better option!
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Oct 26, 2020 22:51:44 GMT -5
My first game was on August 31, 1980 against the Oakland A's and the Sox were in the midst of a 9 game winning streak that brought them to within 6.5 game of 1st place (a month later they finished 19 games out). They beat Oakland 5-1. I believe John Tudor was the starter and I remember Glenn Hoffman hitting a 3-run HR and I remember Billy Martin getting ticked off, kicking dirt at the umpire, and getting thrown out of the game. I remember wanting to see Yaz play, but he crashed into the wall the day before and got put on the DL for the only time in his career. He wouldn't play LF again until the final day of his career. I wanted to see Freddy Lynn, but he was on the DL with a broken toe, but I saw him running pre-game drills anyway. I remember my father wanting Reid Nicols to sign an autograph and my dad insulting him when he didn't. Fortunately a nice young Oakland OF came over and signed an autograph. The inscription read, "To Marc, may God Bless you - Rickey Henderson".
The other "first game" in my life was on August 18, 2019 when I brought my son to his first ballgame. I had considered waiting another year thinking he might be too young, but said ah the heck with it, I'll bring him. I'm thankful because with the damn pandemic, it'll be quite awhile before we ever go again.
I'm glad we went though. They were giving away free 100 piece puzzles of the final scene in the 2018 World Series where Christian Vazquez is jumping into Chris Sale's arms. We put it together and have it hanging on the wall, which is really cool.
He saw the Orioles jump on Nate Eovaldi for 6 runs and an early 6-0 lead. Fortunately they're the Orioles. We endured alternating scorching heat and drenching rain, but we saw Sam Travis hit a HR to bring the Sox to within 6-3. And then during our inevitable food line wait, we missed Raffy Devers hitting a HR, but we did see enough to see the Red Sox rally to win going away by a score of 13-7, so the day was a smashing success. My boy enjoyed it, and I bought him a baseball and his first Red Sox cap.
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Post by lovebe on Oct 29, 2020 16:45:27 GMT -5
I think it was the year 2015 and we were going to celebrate a dudes birthday party at night but we decided to go to the game first and spend the evening and have a night of drinking ! we Had such a blast at that birthday that I cant remember what game we went to !
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Post by bucksmatthew on Feb 16, 2021 14:20:13 GMT -5
My first game was August 13, 1970 - I was 11, a huge Yaz guy, and had been since 1967, when my mother (from Swampscott) followed the world series using our very dated table-top radio (constant adjusting required) from our home in northwestern NJ. Starting with 70, I got to a game a year for the next 20 or so years, usually with my grandfather, who'd seen Babe Ruth play with the Sox as a kid (he was born in 1902) - Yaz did not do a thing this day, and that was pretty much how things turned out when I went to see them play for the rest of his career - Ed Kirkpatrick had what may have been the game of his career, and I've always recalled him because I saw it happen from a box seat behind the third base dugout.... The Royals were already ahead 3-0 before the Sox batted, and Mike Andrews led things off with a homer...... A guy named Ed Phillips pitched for Boston that day, and I can't say I've heard a thing about him since... www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS197008130.shtml |
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