Most memorable experience at a major league baseball game?

Question

Having loved baseball for years I had the most unbelievable experience of being at the ballpark for two of the four no hitters of Sandy Koufax in the early 1960's. What was your best experience at a major league baseball game? Best answer will be awarded to the person who explaines why it so memorable.

Answer 1

Well, I have told this story before but, here goes.....
October 2 1983...Carl Yastrzemski's last game at Fenway Park..After an illustrious career spent entirely with the Red Sox, Yaz was retiring and I had the fortunate experience of being at his last game...
He played left field for the last time and it was so cool to see him running out there like he had done thousands of times before..He got a hit in the game and the Sox won too which made it extra special..
At the end of the game, he ran all the way around the field waving and slapping hands with the people close enough..
It was so fantastic and I will never forget it..I cried as he ran by and honestly, there were not too many dry eyes in the stands..
I still have the ticket stub and the program from that day as well as the many newspaper clippings covering his playing days and retirement..

Answer 2

My most memeroble baseball experiance was in 2001. The Pirates stadium Three rivers stadium was closing. I was at all of the last three games against the cubs. After the last game the had a huge cerrmony. the celebrated the history of the ballpark. Some of the major events like 4 world series wins, bill mazeroskis home rum heard round the burgh. after that, theybrought down a helicopter to take the plate which was later placed in the bew stadium. i will never forget those days because of the history of that ballpark and all that happened there

Answer 3

I have very many great times at the ballparks i have been to over the years, but I think it was when I was very young and living outside Oaktown and was taken to my FIRST game. At the time the Oakland Colisuem was one of the best kept feilds in the american league. I remember walking up the ramp and first seeing sky, then the further up the ramp I got the more of the stadium I could see until finally as I got a big nosefull of freshly cut grass, there it was the most green, green grass i have ever seen even to this day...........

Answer 4

Ive only been to about 5 baseball games so i dont have as many memories to choose from as other people. At a game between the Orioles and Athletics last year they gave out Melvin Mora shirts to the first 15000 fans. We walked in to use the bathroom and got shirts...they let us go back out to get our tickets because they werent there yet and when we went back in we got more shirts. The real memory of that game though was an Athletics player hit 3 homeruns (2 were almost with-in my reach) Even though my team lost 3 homeruns in a game is amazing.

Answer 5

I've been to 3 (Exhibition game between Cardinals and Padres, Mariners vs. Blue Jays, Orioles vs. Rangers)

My most memorable would be seeing this kid get hit in the face by Carlos Delgado's (Then on the Jays) screaming line drive foul ball, and him bleeding all over the place. At that same game I also got to go to one of the boxes and take a picture with the Mariner Moose.

Answer 6

i imagine human beings could attend both - if conceivable. I stay close to the stadium the position the Cardinals and Marlins have spring practise and they rather p.c.. them in for 4 weeks each spring. for the period of a few thing of summer season we've the Florida State League with the kind A Jupiter Hammerheads and Palm coastline Cardinals - regrettably, they don't get a lot of a turnout which makes me unhappy for the gamers. They artwork flat out accessible contained in the warm Florida solar and deserve some cheering followers. The value ticket value is way decrease and also you nevertheless get to work out large baseball and massive up and coming gamers.

Answer 7

I went to a Diamondbacks-Dodgers game in 2005 for my bachelor party. There were about 20 of us in the stands (at Bank One Ballpark), and directly behind us were about 200 screaming Dodger fans. My dad kept buying like ten beers at a time for our group, and he even bought a few for some of the guys behind us (maybe just to keep us from getting beat up).

Anyway, the Diamondbacks ended up winning in the bottom of the ninth on a bases loaded walk issued by the Dodger pitcher. Also, Javier Vazquez was pitching for the Diamondbacks, and we witnessed his first career home run.

Answer 8

I went to a Yankees-Rangers game in arlington many years ago. We got autographs from the yankees at their hotel before the game. We had seats downt the first base line my brother was hit by a derek jeter foul ball, broke his collar bone, and bounced all the way back into the field of play. Derek Jeter autographed the baseball and the first base coach brought it out to us. Then we spent a lot of the game in the first aide lol.

Answer 9

I stayed when the Indians were losing by 12 in the 7th inning to the Mariners. Before I knew it, the Tribe came back and won it in the 11th tying the biggest comeback in major league history. I remember seeing Kenny Lofton score the winning run and then just hugging anyone near me. I will never forget that night.

Answer 10

Actually I have two. Both from many years ago.
(The Braves were still in Milwaukee.)
Early sixties....My wife was not a big baseball fan, but did like Hank Aaron. We finally talked her into going to a home game, and she hoped she would see Hank hit one. Murphey's law took over. She had to go to the john, and while she was under the bleachers, you guessed it, Hank hit one.

The second involves my father in law, also not a big baseball fan. He was on vacation and had my two younger brothers in law with him for a visit. I talked him into taking in a Brave game. They were playing the Giants. I really bragged on Willie Mays. Long story short, Mays was struck out four times by Warren Spahn. On the trip back to Kenosha my father in law sat quietly next to me, but finally opined that he didn't "think that the Mays fellow was all that good." Murphy's law again. The next day he hit three homers.