Here's a great story from Joe Posnanski about the first game Jack Nicklaus ever attended:

http://www.golfchannel.com/news/joe-posnanski/jacks-first-baseball-game-was-all-time-great-course/

Here's the boxscore:
http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1948/B07220NYA1948.htm

What was your first game? What do you remember about it?

And can you find the boxscore on retrosheet or baseball-reference? Does it confirm or refute any of the things you remember?

I remember a few things about my first game:
-- It was at Fenway Park
-- It was in 1976 (I was 7)
-- It was against Milwaukee
-- Hank Aaron played

I don't remember much else. I assume that it was either a weekend game or during the summer, as I doubt my mother would have let my father take me to a weekday night game on a school night. So my best guess is it was this game:

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1976/B05160BOS1976.htm

But I am not sure. And I have no way that I can think of to narrow it down precisely. So I'm going with that for now.

Not my first game, but as a 7 year old, it was pretty exciting to catch my first foul ball right at midnight at this doubleheader with my Dad.

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1998-07-25/sports/9807250051_1_marlins-six-solid-innings-eighth-inning

Game 1: http://scoreshelf.org/MLB/Teams/PHI/Year/1998/Box_Scores/g100vsFLO

Game 2: http://scoreshelf.org/MLB/Teams/PHI/Year/1998/Box_Scores/g101vsFLO

Even with the foul ball, the most memorable thing about the doubleheader was that the Phillies' 36 year old backup catcher, Mark Parent, had to catch the entirely of both games (both of which went into extra innings) due to Mike Lieberthal being injured. Parent's knees were pretty shot at this point and he retired at the end of the season.

This one. I have the audio:


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pBU5e2HqcrA

Posted by bronxcheer on 4/8/2016 5:40:00 AM (view original):
AUG., 1967------METS---3 PIRATES--2 MY FIRST GAME EVER, MY DAD TOOK ME, MY BROTHER AND OUR FRIENDS(TWINS, WHO HE COULD NEVER TELL APART, LOL)

BUDDY HARRELSON WITH A THRILLING TRIPLE AND DANNY FRISELLA'S 1ST MAJOR LEAGUE WIN! FRISELLA HAD TO LEAVE THE GAME EARLY TO REPORT FOR WEEKEND MILITARY RESERVE DUTY!

I ALWAYS SEEMED TO GET THE PIRATES FOR MY BIRTHDAY GAME.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1967/B08110NYN1967.htm

There's a 3-2 win for the Mets over Pittsburgh at Shea in August of '67...appears to be Frisella's first major league win. No triple for Harrelson though.

September 18, 1977 (I was 8 years old.)

This isn't the first game I went to, but it's the first I remember distinctly. Here's the narrative from SABR:

Three teams had been battling all year for the 1977 American League East crown and as of Sunday afternoon, September 18, the Yankees held a 2½ game lead over the Orioles, who themselves were two games ahead of the third-place Red Sox with only 13 games remaining. While the Yankees were playing the Tigers in a three-game weekend series, the Orioles and Red Sox were battling it out at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore. The Birds had taken the first two from Boston and were sending Mike Flanagan to the mound. Flanagan was on his way to a 15-win season and was opposed by Mike Paxton, who would win ten games in this, his rookie season. The Red Sox had three future Hall of Famers, Carl Yastrzemski, Jim Rice, and Carlton Fisk, gracing the middle of their lineup, while soon-to-be Rookie of the Year and future Hall of Famer, Eddie Murray, was DHing and hitting fifth for the Orioles.

No one had come to the ballpark that day, however, just to root on the Orioles or to see two good teams who would each win 97 games. Everyone had come to pay tribute to another future Hall of Famer, a player who had been a part of the Orioles graced third base since the second year of the franchise’s existence, Brooks Robinson. Sunday, September 18, 1977, was “Thanks, Brooks” Day in Baltimore....

An era unlike any other in Baltimore sports history had come to an end and fans entering the stadium that beautiful Sunday afternoon seemed stunned but ready to pay proper homage to their hero. That, they did. As the 1978 Orioles’ press guide described it, “In an emotionally charged atmosphere, Brooks Robinson was accorded a sustained, nerve-tingling ovation as he entered the field and rode around the warning track in a 1955 model Cadillac, manufactured the year he made his major league bow in Baltimore...

The Oriole players were sitting in the grass along the third base line, appropriately enough, and at one point toward the end of the ceremony, DeCinces went to third base, lifted the bag from the ground, and presented it to Brooks.

The particulars of the game itself are forgotten to me in the 40 years now past, but that last part is the part I remember most clearly -- and the ride he took in the '55 Caddy -- is indelibly etched in my mind. Our hometown hero. And the best part was all the kids got orange "5" jerseys, and so many of us wore them to school the next day, we could've almost fielded a whole team of little Brooksies.

My 13th birthday - May 12th 1969 @ Sicks Stadium, Pilots vs Yankees... game was highlighted by a 3rd inning bases clearing brawl that ensued when Bobby Murcer and Ray Oyler tangled up at 2B. Incident was chronicled in Jim Bouton's "Ball Four". We had choice seats along the 3rd base line and witnessed Bouton's true account of him "fake fighting" and dancing around with Fritz Peterson.

It's a bit of a blur, but my first game was in the summer of 1968 in Detroit. Tigers vs. the A's (first year they represented Oakland, but I didn't know it at the time, or care for that matter). Our Cub Scout Troop went to the game as a group, I was 9 years old. We sat in the center field bleachers. It was a sunny day and I recall a bunch of women (girls?) yelling for Mickey Stanley to look at them. They kept chattering about how cute he was. I guess I didn't pay too much attention to the game, but recall having a good time. The A's played in Detroit twice during the weekend that season, but for the life of me I can't remember if was the July or the September series. I do recall using my limited spending money to get a package of color, 8x10 photos of the Tigers which I still have several of someplace.

I was 4 years old. A salesman at my Dad's company on the South Side of Chicago was also a regional scout for the Cleveland Indians (he did all the area scouting of Jim Thome downstate in Peoria and the two remain friends to this day). He got us some really good tickets in Comiskey when the Indians played the White Sox. Before the game, my older brother and I got to go down next to the dugout during BP and we met a bunch of players on both teams and got autographs. I still have my baseball signed by Bobby Bonilla, and my brother got Brook Jacoby's autograph and some other Indians players, but also Ron Kittle from the White Sox on his ball. I don't remember a lot from the actual game, but I believe it was July 22, 1986. I remember we had to leave early, right after the Sox hit a home run and the fireworks were going off. Ron Kittle homered in the 6th in that game, so it must have been that day.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CLE/CLE198607220.shtml

great stories guys...keep the coming

1958, Senators v. Athletics in D.C. It was Little League day and we got to walk the perimeter of the field before sitting down. The pros were warming up: shagging flies, playing catch. My strongest memory is of how hard they threw the ball to each other. I'd never seen anyone throw with such velocity.

This was 10 years after my first game, and was in many ways a non-descript game in baseball history, but boy was it fun.

I was in Cleveland with my dad...we were visiting Case Western. I was a rising senior in high school and Case was one of the schools I was considering. We want to this game:

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1986/B07310CLE1986.htm

I remember vividly the back-to-back-to-back homers by Trammell, Gibson, and Grubb...had to look up the Cleveland pitcher..it was the utterly forgettable Rich Yett (who?). But then Cleveland came back to win the game. That was the year Cleveland surprised the AL with all their young talent (Carter, Hall, Franco, Cory Snyder, Jacoby) and finished over .500 after being an utter disaster the year before. Sports Illustrated overreacted, and in 1987 proclaimed the Indians the best team in the AL...and they went on to finish last.

Great game though.

July 1961, I was 10. My Tigers beat the Red Sox 4-2 in Detroit. We were in the left field upper deck, Charlie Maxwell played left for Detroit; Yaz, in his second season, for Boston. The most exciting play was an RBI triple by Billy Bruton. Russ Nixon homered for the hated Red Sox.