Post the first Cubs game you attended

[Guest]

Sanderberg?

[Guest]

I can't remember exactly so had to do a little research. I knew it was either 95 or 96, the last couple days of June/first couple July/last couple July/first couple August (went on a nine day baseball tour with my dad and one of his friends and it spanned two months), the Cubs won a low scoring game and Sosa homered.

 

Nothing in 95 fit and two in 96.

 

It was either this (a 4-0 win over SF)

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN199607300.shtml

 

or this (a 4-1 win over Colorado)

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN199608010.shtml

 

I'm pretty sure it was the Giants game but I'm not completely sure.

[Willis06]

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN199107040.shtml

 

4th of July, Grace won it in the 11th with a walkoff HR

 

Dad and I went to chicago from MS on the train... good times.

[NOLA]

Lance Dickson's MLB debut vs the Cards. I remember Jerome Walton hit a HR.

My mom bought me one of those stupid Top 10 Lies Told at Wrigley T-shirts, sort of a spin off off Letterman. I loved Dunston, and I think number 1 was "Dunston just needs a few years to develop."

[Wilson A2000]

It must have been 1985 or 1986 because Eckersley hit a homer and he only hit homers in those years as a Cub. Me and my dad sat in the upper deck, first base side. I think the Cubs played the Padres because my dad told me to boo the heck out of Garvey. I just remember thinking "What the heck does boo and hiss mean?" but I kept on doing it.

[Southpaw191679666239]

My first game was one when was under 10 I think and I couldn't take the noise so we left in the 7th. My first full game was somewhere in the 80's and all I can remember is that Sandberg hit a HR in the 1st and the Cubs won 1-0 (I think).

[Guest]

Did some research and gave up. Lou Brock definitely played in that game, though. For the Cardinals, of course. I'm not THAT old!

[Andy]

May 5, 2000, Cubs vs Pirates. My 8th grade class took a class trip to Chicago for the day. We arrived late for the game (one of my biggest pet peeves, but I wasn't running things that day so I had no choice), but we didn't miss much. Cubs lost 4-2, Sosa and Eric Young homered and Kevin Tapani took the loss. Still a great day.

[NewUserName]

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN197306080.shtml

 

I am pretty sure it was this game. Cubs won. It was against he Reds. Rick Monday hit a HR. I am sure it was probably on a Saturday in June.

[Pushfrog98]

It must have been 1985 or 1986 because Eckersley hit a homer and he only hit homers in those years as a Cub. Me and my dad sat in the upper deck, first base side. I think the Cubs played the Padres because my dad told me to boo the heck out of Garvey. I just remember thinking "What the heck does boo and hiss mean?" but I kept on doing it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up4LTKxe0PA

[Lefty]

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN197106130.shtml

 

I've told this story before. In 1989 I was at Mickey Mantle's in New York to watch a big Cub-Mets game and I saw Joe Pepitone sitting by himself. I went over to him and shared a few memories of him from my childhood. He started crying. The rest of the night, he would come up to me with various buddies of his who dropped by and he'd say, "hey Chicago, tell him what you told me." It was so sad.

[Butterscup1679666578]

I'm pretty sure mine was this one. Played the Dodgers, lost in extras. I was 5 so naturally I fell asleep before the game was over.

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN199209010.shtml

[dfnowak]

I believe this was my first Cubs game, from 1985, when I was 8. I remember them losing to the Giants on a weekend game in Wrigley around the 1985-1986 seasons with the Giants hitting a few HR's. My dad got these tickets from his boss's season tickets, which at the time were 5 rows from the field, behind homeplate on the first base side. These seats are probably the 10th-15th row now since they expanded closer to homeplate.

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN198507060.shtml

 

Now, my first actual MLB game was in 83 or 84 at the old Comiskey Park to watch the White Sox play the Blue Jays. I had a hard time finding this game as I thought the Sox won 8-7, but couldn't find that score on BR. I remember it being a night game, warm and sunny that day, and my mom persuaded my brother to take me after his date had backed out.