Baseball

[jwg]

When I was a kid I was a Yankees fan - I lived in NYC. My father was a NY Giants fan. We occasionally listened to games on the radio and I went with my father to several games at the Polo Grounds, Ebbets Field and the original Yankee Stadium. And to several more at Yankees games with a school friend. Then I lost interest.

One summer at camp I became a Milwaukee Braves fan (was Boston Braves, now Atlanta Braves) and listened to a few games. Then I lost interest and ignored the sport.

In 1986 I remarked to Robert (rsc) "Oh the RedSox are in the World Series - let's watch some games" and we did. Little did we know what this was going to do to us. We started paying a bit of attention to games. In 1989 we went to some games in Fenway Park and continued doing this for a few years. And in 1994 we got Season's tickets (weekday games) and shared with several other people and started going to 10-15 games each year.

We watch most games on TV - and part-time on the radio during dinner or in the car.

While travelling we have gone to games in both the completely redone old Yankee Stadium and then the new Yankee Stadiums, Giant's games in Candlestick and then Oracle park, Twins in Metropolitan Park in Minneapolis, old Tiger stadium in Detroit, Mariners at Safeco field in Seattle, Phillies at Veteran's and Citizen's Park in Philadelphia, Cubs at Wrigley field in Chicago, Mets at Shea statium (me only), Athletics at Oakland Coliseum. And the RedSox triple A team in Pawtucket. I've been in Rogers Centre in Toronto (Blue Jays) not for a game but a computer conference.

So I've seen games in 17 stadiums and been in one other.

The UserPic is for the Canterbury RedSox (New Zealand - softball) - they weren't playing when we were there.

Comments

[fauxklore]

You need to go out to Worcester to Polar Park.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've heard good things about the Worcester stadium. The one I really want to get to is the Pirates' park in Pittsburgh, which has consistently gotten rave reviews. (The Red Sox were supposed to have played there over the July 4th weekend last year, and we were planning to go, but, well, we all know what happened to that.)

[fauxklore]

PNC is a nice ballpark. I also like Camden Yards (especially when the Red Sox are in town) and Whatever phone company it is named after today in San Francisco.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

For some reason we've never made it to Camden Yards. We've been to the SF park a couple of times (I can't ever remember what its name is either); it's a really nice place to watch a game.