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Post by sotafan27 on Feb 17, 2017 22:13:40 GMT -6
I was born in 1993, and I became "sports conscious" in 2001. My first ever baseball memory was Mike Piazza's home run in the bottom of the 8th, first game after 9/11. I was instantly hooked to what would become more than just a game, to me. What's everybody else's first baseball memory?
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Post by brandonwarne52 on Feb 17, 2017 22:23:46 GMT -6
Watching at my grandma's house in 1993. Couldn't figure out why Pat Meares -- who batted ninth for the Twins -- never got to bat in the first inning because everyone got to hit every inning in school. I was smitten at age seven, and here I am almost 24 years later.
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Post by thejon on Feb 18, 2017 8:29:21 GMT -6
I remember watching random games in 97 and not really knowing or caring what was happening. But by 1999 I was a fan. I have very fond memories of the 2001 season. Before that I could only watch 2 or 3 games a week on CBC, but that year I discovered that I could listen to games on the radio so that's what I did 162 times.
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Post by pytleskij on Feb 18, 2017 15:46:30 GMT -6
Late 80s at Tiger Stadium. Tigers come back from like 8 down in the ninth, capped off by a Larry Sheets HR to RF to beat Baltimore 10β9 or something like that.
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Post by brandonwarne52 on Feb 18, 2017 15:52:14 GMT -6
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Post by pytleskij on Feb 18, 2017 17:17:00 GMT -6
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Post by brandonwarne52 on Feb 18, 2017 17:19:32 GMT -6
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Post by pytleskij on Feb 18, 2017 17:22:10 GMT -6
How did I forget David Ortiz was a DH for the Twins?
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Post by brandonwarne52 on Feb 18, 2017 17:24:10 GMT -6
How can I forget David Ortiz ever played for the Twins?
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Post by ilovemillar on Feb 20, 2017 8:08:15 GMT -6
This is easy.
1978 (showing my age but I was a child) hearing my dad listening to the AL one game playoff on the radio. I asked him why he didn't have the tv on and he said it was because he didn't like the commentary. In my heart I knew it was he couldn't bear to watch them blow it after such a colossal collapse during the reg season.
The Yaz pop out would be the excruciating end and the beginning of my interest in the game.
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Post by rjbraves on Feb 20, 2017 9:36:42 GMT -6
I am sure the Twins fans here can relate if they are old enough but my first memories are of the 1991 World Series.
I had just turned 7 so the greatest World Series ever played was well timed to forever suck me into a love affair with baseball. Being from near by Tennessee and being a sucker for a good underdog story I easily latched on to the 'worst-to-first' Braves. This series was a baseball fans dream and it was my first! Three extra inning games, four walk off wins, homerun-robbing catches, controversy and the best part, Morris v Smoltz. I signed up to play little league the next spring and played into high school. Smoltzie will always be my favorite player and "Kent Hrbek is a cheater" will assuredly find it's way on to my tombstone.
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Post by rationalyankeesfan on Feb 21, 2017 8:48:57 GMT -6
My family was never into sports, so it took me a while to discover it, myself... my first baseball memory was when my father woke me up to watch the last out of the 1996 world series, when I was 12... so, of course, I became a Yankees fan when the 3rd baseman squeezed that pop out to win it. 1997 I wasn't able to watch really any games because, again, nobody was a sports fan, but at the beginning of 1998, I remember ripping out the 1998 NYY schedule out of my teacher's Sports Illustrated 1998 MLB preview magazine, and followed them closely that year... and what a season... I was obviously hooked from there.
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