Wed Jan 28, 2015 12:31 pm
The first game I ever went to was Yankees vs. Baltimore at Yankee Stadium in 1961. I was 10. We had a black and white TV set, and there was no way to prepare me for walking up the ramp to the grandstand and -- for the first time -- seeing a real baseball stadium. The sunlit green of the grass and the red of the sandy infield, and the white of the uniforms, and the pale green facade sporting those incredible championship banners ... I'll never forget it.
BUT, I didn't become a Yankee fan. The next year, I was at the FIRST NY Met home win ever (and their second win ever) at the Polo Grounds. . . Nothing like those memories. Met fan forever.
Artie