Post the first Cubs game you attended

[David]

Here's mine.

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN199405220.shtml

 

I could track down the date because I remembered that Derrick May hit a HR and that the Bulls lost Game 7 to the Knicks that day.

 

I was 11. Went with my dad and brother. Dad got tickets through work. I didn't care much about baseball yet. It wasn't until 95 that I really became a fan.

 

 

 

Also, this was my first baseball game period...

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHA/CHA199309261.shtml

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHA/CHA199309262.shtml

 

It was a double header and the Sox clinched the division that day (I think).

 

I remember Bo Jackson running away from a bee at the plate. And he homered.

[El Duderino]

I have no clue... had to be a game at Candlestick against the Giants. I think the Cubs were wearing the Cuba jerseys at the time. Must have been 7 or 8.

[bukie]

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN198608130.shtml

 

Remains the best game I've ever attended. Bonds' rookie year, and Dunston won it with a HR.

[SouthSideRyan]

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN199208110.shtml

 

I was 8, and I insisted on staying the entire game.

[Guest]

I have no clue... had to be a game at Candlestick against the Giants. I think the Cubs were wearing the Cuba jerseys at the time. Must have been 7 or 8.

 

So it was either 95 or 96. Let's narrow it down some more.

 

EDIT - Apparently, they wore the Cuba jerseys in 94 too.

 

http://exhibits.baseballhalloffame.org/dressed_to_the_nines/uniforms.asp?league=NL&city=Chicago&lowYear=1990&highYear=2000&sort=year&increment=9

Edited April 12, 2012 by David

[Guest]

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN199208110.shtml

 

I was 8, and I insisted on staying the entire game.

 

Did you heckle Mark Grace?

[El Duderino]

I have no clue... had to be a game at Candlestick against the Giants. I think the Cubs were wearing the Cuba jerseys at the time. Must have been 7 or 8.

 

So it was either 95 or 96. Let's narrow it down some more.

 

I'm assuming it had to be in the summer. I'd probably have to call up my dad for more specifics.

[SouthSideRyan]

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN199208110.shtml

 

I was 8, and I insisted on staying the entire game.

 

Did you heckle Mark Grace?

 

Palmiero would've hit 2 homers!

[jersey cubs fan]

no clue, but mel hall was there

[Derwood]

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

 

Red score 1 in the top of the 1st, then nothing until the Cubs score 2 in the bottom of the 9th. Tim Belcher with the complete game loss

[Guest]

I've been to a lot of awesome games that I have left too early.

 

The two worst examples of this are the 2003 Cardinals September game. I left after the JD Drew grand slam... Think it put us down 8-0.

 

I also left the 2008 Brewers September game where we were down 4 runs with 2 outs in the 9th and came back to win in extras. Left in the 8th to beat the crowd to the train.

[SouthSideRyan]

I've been to a lot of awesome games that I have left too early.

 

The two worst examples of this are the 2003 Cardinals September game. I left after the JD Drew grand slam... Think it put us down 8-0.

 

I also left the 2008 Brewers September game where we were down 4 runs with 2 outs in the 9th and came back to win in extras. Left in the 8th to beat the crowd to the train.

 

Boo this man

[Guest]

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN199208110.shtml

 

I was 8, and I insisted on staying the entire game.

 

Did you heckle Mark Grace?

 

Palmiero would've hit 2 homers!

 

Dual Grace/Sandberg heckle. Nice.

[Guest]

I've been to a lot of awesome games that I have left too early.

 

The two worst examples of this are the 2003 Cardinals September game. I left after the JD Drew grand slam... Think it put us down 8-0.

 

I also left the 2008 Brewers September game where we were down 4 runs with 2 outs in the 9th and came back to win in extras. Left in the 8th to beat the crowd to the train.

 

Boo this man

 

Seriously sucks so bad.

[C.C.]

I was about 8. Old man snuck in some schnapps. Good times.

[jersey cubs fan]

I've been to a lot of awesome games that I have left too early.

 

The two worst examples of this are the 2003 Cardinals September game. I left after the JD Drew grand slam... Think it put us down 8-0.

 

I also left the 2008 Brewers September game where we were down 4 runs with 2 outs in the 9th and came back to win in extras. Left in the 8th to beat the crowd to the train.

 

You didn't like baseball as a kid and you don't like it enough to stay for full games as an adult. Are you sure you like baseball now?

[Derwood]

Not my first, but I sat through every out of this monstrosity:

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN199506170.shtml

[Guest]

I've been to a lot of awesome games that I have left too early.

 

The two worst examples of this are the 2003 Cardinals September game. I left after the JD Drew grand slam... Think it put us down 8-0.

 

I also left the 2008 Brewers September game where we were down 4 runs with 2 outs in the 9th and came back to win in extras. Left in the 8th to beat the crowd to the train.

 

You didn't like baseball as a kid and you don't like it enough to stay for full games as an adult. Are you sure you like baseball now?

 

I like baseball less than I dislike being angry and watching my team lose 8-0 in person in the middle of a pennant race to the team they're in the race with.

 

And I did like baseball as a kid. A 12 year old and up kid.

[jersey cubs fan]

And I did like baseball as a kid. A 12 year old and up kid.

 

You are the LA Dodgers fan of Cubs fan, arrive late and leave early.

[Fast Freddie Bynum]

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN200108260.shtml

 

Sosa 50th and 51st Bombs and Juan Cruz 1st career win!

[Guest]

And I did like baseball as a kid. A 12 year old and up kid.

 

You are the LA Dodgers fan of Cubs fan, arrive late and leave early.

 

Well played.

[Fro]

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN199810030.shtml

 

Pretty big one for my first game at Wrigley

 

I might have seen a Cubs/Reds game at Cincy before that, but memory is a little fuzzy.

[Brian707]

6-12-83 Jody Davis hits a grandslam, I was 6 and hooked for life. I got a ball at the game from one of the Cardinal coaches, date of game is still on it.

 

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

[fromthestretch]

All I remember was that it was in 1987 and Jerry Mumphrey hit a home run.

[SouthSideRyan]

All I remember was that it was in 1987 and Jerry Mumphrey hit a home run.

 

You've got 7 options.

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.cgi?id=mumphje01&t=b&year=1987