Post the first Cubs game you attended

[Cubswin11]

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN199806150.shtml

 

Went on a fam vacation to Chicago for my first time, think I was about 9-10. Sammy hit 3 HR, was part of his crazy June of 98'. Didn't he hit over 20 HR that month?

[tgkimmel]

Sept. 23, 1984. My dad took me to watch the Cubs play the Cards in St. Louis. Because of a rain out the day before it was double header. The Cubs swept it, and clinched a tie for the division. They won the division the next day in Pittsburgh. 13 years old and other than catching a foul ball from Terry Pendleton (George Frazier pitched it) a few years later, it's been all down hill since.

 

On a related note, when I took my wife to her first game we were in Milwaukee and saw a triple play.

 

We start so well . . .

[PriortoTheoIhadWood]

Jeter hits his first career grand slam.

[imb]

let's see if you can find mine, guys. here's what i remember from that day:

 

i was really little but i can remember it, so it was probably between 89 and 92

 

i sat somewhere under the upper deck

 

i think it was cloudy

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good luck!

same for me except it was 92-94, lower deck, and sunny.

 

hahahaha

[bcl412]

Some random Cubs vs Mets game in which the Cubs won on a Grace sac fly walk off. I really don't remember any of it though my dad saved the box score at home.

[XZero771679666304]

May 24th, 1984. All I really remember was Jody Davis hitting a homer (I was only 7).

 

Box score

[Soul]

I have no idea. It was some day back in the '70s when we were terrible and I had no idea what to expect.

 

I feel like Steve Swisher was catching, and Jerry Morales was probably playing too.

[bhogg]

August 1985. My parents took me to St Louis to see the Cubs and Cards. This was right around the time of the player strike in 85. Also during the cubs epic losing streak to fall completely out of the race in '85.

 

John Tudor pitched a 1 hitter (Leon Durham), the Cubs turned a triple play, and Tom Herr went yard.

 

I remember being awestruck by being in a major league stadium.

 

 

 

first trip to Wrigley was August of 89. Cubs took on the Expos, over took them for 1st place and never looked back. Sandberg homered in back to back games (part of a 5 game streak). Good memories right there.

[Pushfrog98]

I was a bit of a late bloomer. Always wanted to go to a game, but never had the money/means to get a ticket and get to Chicago (or St. Louis). My GF (now wife) took me for my 23rd birthday. Sammy Sosa broke a couple bats (none corked). He launched a monster home run in the bottom of the 8th to give the Cubs a 3-1 lead over the Reds. Alfonsucka promptly came in and blew the game and Farnsworth lost in in the 10th.

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN200206270.shtml

 

Oh, and I was surrounded by Reds fans who took a charter bus from Ohio. They heckled me the entire game. That should NEVER be how a Cub fans first experience of a game (at Wrigley, no less) should be!

[rocket]

When I lived in Chicago, I went to Wrigley when I was 4 or 5. I don't remember anything about the game other than the fact that the Cubs beat the Pirates. I'm not even sure what year it was.

 

My triumphant return to Wrigley was this horrible game in 2003 where I nearly died of sun poisoning in the bleachers. So hot and miserable, but it was fun cheering Sammy on in the front row and telling Brady Clark how worthless he is. Cubs lost in the 10th inning after the Brewers scored 6 in the 10th. I didn't stick around to see the bottom of the 10th due to potential death.

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN200306250.shtml

 

I don't sit in the bleachers anymore.

[MembersOnlyJacket]

I attended my first game on my birthday. We were visiting family living in Urbana at the time for the 4th weekend. Then, drove up to Chicago in part to go to Wrigley Field and see a game.

 

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1992/B07060CHN1992.htm

[cl smooth]

i was either 4 or 5. cubs faced the cardinals at wrigley during the summer and we left early because either ozzie smith was kicking our [expletive] and it was overcast and about to rain...thinking '87 or '88 here.

 

2nd game was in '92 vs. the dodgers. crowd kept yelling DARRYL DARRYL every time strawberry was up at bat. i remember leaving school early that day (like 11am or something) to go to the game. i don't remember who won.

[Clem Fandango]

I'm sure I attended many Cubs games during my youth because we used to go every summer when we visited my Grandmother in Dundee, but I can't seem to pinpoint any specific game other than a slugfest between the Dodgers and Cubs in the mid 90's. Sosa and Piazza hit homers, that's all I remember. Night game. That's my earliest Wrigley memory.

 

Otherwise I do recall seeing the Cubs vs. Marlins in Miami at Joe Robbie Stadium around 1994 or 1995 and it has a distinct lasting impression on me because there was nobody there and the guys sitting behind us mimic'd the announcer's tone of voice when he would cal out the Marlins players and now every time I see Jeff Conine's name I pronounce it "Jeff.... Ca-hooooooooooo-niiiiine"

[Omar]

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN200506290.shtml

 

It was the day the Cubs released Joe Borowski. Also, Hollandsworth hit a single to drive in Jeromy Burnitz as the winning run.

[Gmoney23]

Maybe some of you wizards can help find the game!

 

I was 3 or 4 years old, so 93 or 94, and it was a cold april maybe early may double header against the expo's. I think the Cubs split the doubleheader.

 

Also I distinctly one of the next games I was ever at was 95, in the old Busch stadium. Steve Bueschelle (I might have butchered the spelling) hit a home run, and it was the day of or like the day after the Bulls got Dennis Rodman in that offseason. I remember watching Dumb and Dumber in the hotel with my Dad and Uncle, laughing my ass of, and I remember being mad the Bulls got Rodman (I insisted he was gay cause he wore womens clothes). I was 5, so what else would I think!

[SouthSideRyan]

Maybe some of you wizards can help find the game!

 

I was 3 or 4 years old, so 93 or 94, and it was a cold april maybe early may double header against the expo's. I think the Cubs split the doubleheader.

 

Also I distinctly one of the next games I was ever at was 95, in the old Busch stadium. Steve Bueschelle (I might have butchered the spelling) hit a home run, and it was the day of or like the day after the Bulls got Dennis Rodman in that offseason. I remember watching Dumb and Dumber in the hotel with my Dad and Uncle, laughing my ass of, and I remember being mad the Bulls got Rodman (I insisted he was gay cause he wore womens clothes). I was 5, so what else would I think!

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SLN/SLN199505080.shtml

 

There's your Cardinals game.

[Guest]

Lou Brock Day at Wrigley in 1979, I was 10. Brock was given 2nd base before the game. I want to say the Cubs won.

[javy knows my name]

I think I was 5 or 6 and I don't remember a single thing about the game other than that it was hot. 100% positive we lost, as well.

 

I've been to some great ones, though. Z's no hitter, the Mongo game, I've seen an Aramis walk-off homer (I think an Alou one, too). I think the Mongo game tops all. Certainly my most vivid memory of Wrigley.

[bcl412]

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN199208080.shtml

 

Pretty sure that's my first game. Only time I've ever been to a walk off and I saw Dwight Gooden pitch which would be cool if I remembered it.

[J.R.]

first trip to Wrigley was August of 89. Cubs took on the Expos, over took them for 1st place and never looked back. Sandberg homered in back to back games (part of a 5 game streak). Good memories right there.

 

That was a pivotal series. I remember being convinced that the Expos would be the ones to sweep and never look back.

[Sosa21MVP]

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN198706080.shtml

 

Yeah, Manny Trillo walk-off home run...never saw that coming. I was hoping to see Dawson hit one out that day but no dice.

[fiver]

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN199208060.shtml

 

It was a 1992 night game against the New York Mets. Greg Maddux won, pitching a complete game (this was his Cubs Cy Young year). Sanderberg had a double and a triple. Grace went 0-5. Derrick May had a couple of RBIs. Eddie Murray had the only HR of the game. Sosa had one plate appearance, a walk, during his first year as a Cub.

[UncleDon]

http://www.thebaseballcube.com/history/boxscore.asp?GID=CHN198708020

 

Two Phillies fans were talking smack bigtime, but Manny Trillo blasted a homer to tie the game and the Cubs won in 10. Everyone in the section roasted those two saps.

[Guest]

Maybe some of you wizards can help find the game!

 

I was 3 or 4 years old, so 93 or 94, and it was a cold april maybe early may double header against the expo's. I think the Cubs split the doubleheader.

 

Also I distinctly one of the next games I was ever at was 95, in the old Busch stadium. Steve Bueschelle (I might have butchered the spelling) hit a home run, and it was the day of or like the day after the Bulls got Dennis Rodman in that offseason. I remember watching Dumb and Dumber in the hotel with my Dad and Uncle, laughing my ass of, and I remember being mad the Bulls got Rodman (I insisted he was gay cause he wore womens clothes). I was 5, so what else would I think!

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SLN/SLN199505080.shtml

 

There's your Cardinals game.

 

That definitely was not around when the Bulls got Rodman. In fact, Buechelle was long gone from the team by that point. Bulls got Rodman in October of that year.

[bcl412]

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN199208060.shtml

 

It was a 1992 night game against the New York Mets. Greg Maddux won, pitching a complete game (this was his Cubs Cy Young year). Sanderberg had a double and a triple. Grace went 0-5. Derrick May had a couple of RBIs. Eddie Murray had the only HR of the game. Sosa had one plate appearance, a walk, during his first year as a Cub.

 

Ha, yours is two days before mine.