Your first game at Fenway?

[Boston Boxer]

I think i was maybe 8 or 9 years old. We sat in the right field bleachers and i think the tickets were $5 or $6 back then. Those days you could just walk up to the ticket window and purchase (not constantly sold out like now). I remember walking up the tunnel and then it was like going from black and white to color TV. The greenest grass you could imagine. Everything was so vibrant. Hand my first Italian sausage from a vendor outside the stadium. It was my first time seeing a "community bathroom" where everyone just pissed into the same floor drain (or so it seemed).

 

[captain stone]

I think i was maybe 8 or 9 years old. We sat in the right field bleachers and i think the tickets were $5 or $6 back then. Those days you could just walk up to the ticket window and purchase (not constantly sold out like now). I remember walking up the tunnel and then it was like going from black and white to color TV. The greenest grass you could imagine. Everything was so vibrant. Hand my first Italian sausage from a vendor outside the stadium. It was my first time seeing a "community bathroom" where everyone just pissed into the same floor drain (or so it seemed).

The good old horse trough under the CF bleachers, where there was always room for one more!

 

[stinkypete]

September 10, 1988. Roger Clemens carried a no hitter into the 7th inning until it was spoiled by a Brook Jacoby bouncer.

One of two one-hitters I caught, the other being a Danny Darwin gem in '93 that was spoiled by a deep fly that appeared to be misplayed by Billy Hatcher.

 

[captain stone]

September 10, 1988. Roger Clemens carried a no hitter into the 7th inning until it was spoiled by a Brook Jacoby bouncer.

One of two one-hitters I caught, the other being a Danny Darwin gem in '93 that was spoiled by a deep fly that appeared to be misplayed by Billy Hatcher.

Doctor D!

 

[bresna]

The good old horse trough under the CF bleachers, where there was always room for one more!

That horse trough was mounted fairly high up and I needed my dad to hold me up the first time I used it. By the time I was tall enough on my tiptoes to get my guy over the edge, it was weird taking a leak with all of these huge guys all around me... of course, everything looked huge then.

 

[reflexblue]

Never forget mine. July 15, 1971... Jim Perry for the Twins against El Tiante.

My dad took me... I was 10... we sat in the centerfield bleachers... I'd never seen grass so green.

0-0 until the bottom of the 13th, when with two on, Rico Petrocelli hit one over the Green Monster.

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Boston Red Sox beat Minnesota Twins (3-0). Jul 15, 1971, Attendance: 27673, Time of Game: 3:39. Visit Baseball-Reference.com for the complete box score, play-by-play, and win probability

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Wow, you have a seriously good memory to remember the date. My first game was during the 1972 season, all i remember is that my buddy and i got tickets for a couple of bucks, we sat near the pesky poll. The sox were being beaten so bad that everyone started to leave and we moved into seats right behind home plate.

 

[UrbanCowboy]

Roughly 1970 against the Washington Senators. Frank Howard hit a home run that is still in orbit!

 

[Since1960]

Eight years old in 1959 and my Dad took me to Fenway for the first time to watch my hero, Ted Williams. We had grandstand seats on the first base side. I don’t remember anything about the game other than vividly remember seeing the greenest grass I had evah seen (to this day mind you), as we made our way to our seats. I’ll also nevah forget seeing “The Green Monster” that first time, and I’ll nevah, evah forget clapping and cheering for Ted!

 

[The Brandon Five]

I have no idea what the date was. We beat the Royals handily and I was shouting at KC to take up tennis (I was about 10). So I am a bonafide Masshole!

 

[captain stone]

Eight years old in 1959 and my Dad took me to Fenway for the first time to watch my hero, Ted Williams. We had grandstand seats on the first base side. I don’t remember anything about the game other than vividly remember seeing the greenest grass I had evah seen (to this day mind you), as we made our way to our seats. I’ll also nevah forget seeing “The Green Monster” that first time, and I’ll nevah, evah forget clapping and cheering for Ted!

Never saw him myself of course, but at least I can say that I was born while ol' Teddy Ballgame was still playing (Nov '59) and before Yaz ever played in front of the Green Monstah...

 

[Since1960]

Never saw him myself of course, but at least I can say that I was born while ol' Teddy Ballgame was still playing (Nov '59) and before Yaz ever played in front of the Green Monstah...

He sure was the greatest hitter that I ever saw.. Remember the All-Star game at Fenway with the “all-stars” of the day looking like a bunch of kids themselves knowing they were in the presence of an “All-Time All-Star”! Only thing missing was Ted wearing a Red Sox cap….

 

[captain stone]

Never forget mine. July 15, 1971... Jim Perry for the Twins against El Tiante.

My dad took me... I was 10... we sat in the centerfield bleachers... I'd never seen grass so green.

0-0 until the bottom of the 13th, when with two on, Rico Petrocelli hit one over the Green Monster.

Minnesota Twins vs Boston Red Sox Box Score: July 15, 1971 | Baseball-Reference.com

Boston Red Sox beat Minnesota Twins (3-0). Jul 15, 1971, Attendance: 27673, Time of Game: 3:39. Visit Baseball-Reference.com for the complete box score, play-by-play, and win probability

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Didn't really notice the year at first; but when I did it reminded me...

I saw the last good game of that season a couple of months earlier: Memorial Day Friday, Sox vs As, Sonny Siebert vs Vida Blue, the old ace vs the young ace, 31-16 @ 28-15, 35K+ in attendance.... Had to wait until our dad came home from work at the old Sears distribution center off the expressway in Southie to watch our younger sister before my brother & I & two friends could leave on our 10-minute walk to Ashmont Station around 4:30.. Night games back then started at 7:30 so we arrived at the park not long after the gates to the bleachers opened around 6, though we still had to settle for seats in RF about a third of the way-up behind the Oakland bullpen... Game didn't disappoint either: Rico hit two HRs, Siebert went 8+ with Bobby Bolin earning the save as the Sox won 4-3 to increase their division lead to 4 games and their winning % to .659, both of which would be high-water marks for the rest of the season, sadly Still, good times, good times...

 

[oldrover]

Didn't really notice the year at first; but when I did it reminded me...

I saw the last good game of that season a couple of months earlier: Memorial Day Friday, Sox vs As, Sonny Siebert vs Vida Blue, the old ace vs the young ace, 31-16 @ 28-15, 35K+ in attendance.... Had to wait until our dad came home from work at the old Sears distribution center off the expressway in Southie to watch our younger sister before my brother & I & two friends could leave on our 10-minute walk to Ashmont Station around 4:30.. Night games back then started at 7:30 so we arrived at the park not long after the gates to the bleachers opened around 6, though we still had to settle for seats in RF about a third of the way-up behind the Oakland bullpen... Game didn't disappoint either: Rico hit two HRs, Siebert went 8+ with Bobby Bolin earning the save as the Sox won 4-3 to increase their division lead to 4 games and their winning % to .659, both of which would be high-water marks for the rest of the season, sadly Still, good times, good times...

If that’s the game that both Sonny and Vida were like 8-0, then I remember that game vividly. Like I watched it! (I listened on the radio out at our family lake cottage… “camp” as we Mainers called it! )

 

[captain stone]

If that’s the game that both Sonny and Vida were like 8-0, then I remember that game vividly. Like I watched it! (I listened on the radio out at our family lake cottage… “camp” as we Mainers called it! )

Same one. It was also one of the first games my brother & I attended without our dad: my brother had started at Boston Latin the previous September as a 7th-grader, so he was used to taking the T, with others or by himself; and all our parents must've figured that 4 11/12-year-olds are twice as likely to not be ripped-off or beaten-up as one or two would be...