Baseball anniversaries

[bugsybanana]

I missed the fortieth anniversary of my very first ballgame earlier this week. June 29th, 1975: I know my mother and my late Aunt Alice (the biggest Mets fan in the family) took me but I don't remember who else was there. It was a Mets-Phillies double-header at the old incarnation of Shea Stadium, the one that looked like a Wonder Bread wrapper.

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[redaxe]

Two Fourth of July baseball memories: I was watching that Mets-Braves game, and my dad kept coming downstairs and asking "Is that game still on?" Saw it all the way through, and was astonished that they actually held the fireworks as planned. Here's another good article on the game. (Note the box score: the Braves only got back two in the bottom of the 19th, not four. They were threatening to, though.)

Two years earlier, I was getting sunburned in the bleachers in the Bronx, celebrating George Steinbrenner's birthday with the flyover and skydivers (smoke and all), plus Chuck Mangione playing the national anthem, prior to Dave Righetti pitching against the hated Red Sox. And no-hitting them, of course.

We're overdue for another great game on the Fourth from the NY teams.

[bugsybanana]

It's my fault for not checking the box score; I do see they had the tying run come to the plate. I didn't realize Camp made the final out on top of everything else. Jeez.

You were at Righetti's no-hitter? Lucky you! The best I've done was to be at Seaver's 300th win (aka Phil Rizzuto Day), but that was an event everyone at the park foresaw. No-hitters are purely serendipitous.

[brithistorian]

I'm kind of jealous of people who have young memories of baseball like this. The part of southern Mississippi I grew up in was a baseball desert - equidistant from Atlanta and Houston. I started learning about baseball from people on LJ and started getting into it when I moved to Minnesota about 10 years ago.

My main sports memories from my youth are centered around watching the Olympics - from opening ceremonies to closing ceremonies, we watched every night of the games.