First Cubs game attended

[Jaysus1975]

I thought this would be fun.

 

My first game was August 18th 1983

[Old Style]

I was so young that I don't even remember.

[Brian707]

6-12-83 Cubs defeat Cards Jody Davis hits a grand slam.

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN198306120.shtml

[Jaysus1975]

I was so young that I don't even remember.

 

Haha... yeah, I had to look mine up on the net. I remembered the year, the team they played(Braves), and the score, but I couldnt remember the date. Hell, I was only 8 years old.

[bcl412]

I don't remember it that much but I've read the box score. Cubs vs Mets, I think 91 or something like that, Doc Gooden pitched and Mark Grace won it on a sac fly.

[Jaysus1975]

6-12-83 Cubs defeat Cards Jody Davis hits a grand slam.

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN198306120.shtml

 

Ah, you got me by 2 months...haha. Thats pretty cool. Jody hit a 3 run HR at my first game. Fergie pitched 8 2/3 of shutout ball and the Cubs won 3-0. I remember that Bill Buckner could still kinda run back then

[Cynosure]

It was mid-june of 99... I had been a Cubs fan for about 7 years before that but lived in Oregon.

[Roast]

September 18, 1999. Cubs lose in 14 but Sammy hits #60 for the second year in a row!

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN199909180.shtml

[bukie]

August 13, 1986

 

Exciting game that I remember for two things:

 

1 - Some scrawny no-hit rookie Pirate CF killing the Cubs all day with doubles and stolen bases (Guess who?).

2 - Shawon Dunston capped a comeback from a 5-1 deficit by hitting a go-ahead 2-run HR in the 8th, cementing him immediately as my favorite Cub. Unfortunately, I had to listen to that part on the radio, as we had already left the park. This would be the last time we left the park early outside of weather-related issues.

[Tracer Bullet]

I was 6 or 7 years old. I don't remember anything about it, sadly. But I went to at least 1 game a year for about 5 years (for a kid from small town Iowa, that was a big deal) and had an uncle with connections so we sat 2 rows behind the visitors dug out. I have some great memories (including some great pictures of Strawberry), but not of the first game.

[Jon]

I wish I knew. I know there are some old ticket stubs at my mom's house, but I doubt I'd be able to figure it out.

[Kid Gleason]

My first game was during spring training '85 out in Mesa. My twin brother and I got Ron Cey's autograph. I was star struck. In those days the players and the fans shared a gravel parking lot. I remember my grandfather talking with Ritchie Hebner as we all walked to our cars. My first game at Wrigley was in '86 when the Cubs played the Braves. Dale Murphy hit a few homers, Cubs lost.

[NewUserName]

I dont remember the date or even the year. Cubs played the Big Red Machine. Cubs won in the 9th with Dave Radar hitting a bases loaded double off the wall. 2-1

[Derwood]

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN199304250.shtml

 

April 25, 1993

 

Reds score 1 in the top of the first, then nothing at all until the Cubs score 2 in the bottom of the 9th for the victory.

 

Frank Castillo gives up 1 run and 3 hits in 7 1/3 but gets the ND.

[SouthSideRyan]

Cubs lost 3-2 in 18 innings to the Expos. Luis Salazar got thrown out at some point in extras trying to stretch a single into a double.

 

Retrosheet calls me a liar. It was 17 innings and no Cub was thrown out trying to stretch a double. Musta been combining a couple games together.

Edited September 26, 2008 by SouthSideRyan

[TuffyRhodes]

June 23, 1984 (i.e The Sandberg Game)

 

I was 7, so unfortunately I don't remember much of anything (and I was a Dernier fan so I probably was more focused on him). I still have the ticket stubs from the game. It is my goal to get them autographed by Sandberg, but I am afraid to send it in the mail.

[rocket]

i don't remember the year or date. it was in the mid 80's, and the cubs were playing the pirates and the cubs won.

 

i don't remember any other details.

[laurens]

Somewhere within the next 10 years

 

 

 

I hope

[otis89]

I went to several that I was too young to remember, but the first one I remember was the 20-1 whooping of the Dodgers at Wrigley in 2001. I guess you can say I got off to a good start. :P

[Old Style]

Mine would have been in the late 70's.

[beersoakedivy]

Back in the mid seventies...exact date unknown

[El Rojito]

September 20, 1986. Cubs 1, Pirates 0. The only run came on a Ryne Sandberg solo shot that we missed because we were getting popcorn.

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN198609200.shtml

[Mugged By Fluffy]

I don't even know it was so long ago. Probably 1973 or 1974 when I was 4 or 5 years old. Though I can specifically remember a 1976 game that a neighbor took my friend and I to against the Reds. We sat in the grandstands behind home plate.

[Derwood]

The first game I went to period was when I was 3 or 4. Veteran's stadium, Phillies vs. Reds. Tom Seaver pitched (he was, for some reason, my "favorite" player as a preschooler).

 

Possibly this game: http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/PHI/PHI197906150.shtml

[carolinacubbie]

My first was when Maddux faced Clemens a few years back. That was my first at Wrigley at least. I went to at least 2 of the 3 games everytime the Cubs played down in Atlanta since it is only a 3 hour drive for me.