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In 1969, my family and I were living in upstate New York. At the time I was a die-hard Yankee fan. I had never been to a major league game, and kept asking my Dad if we could go see a Yankee game [...]

It was Sunday, May 10th.  It was my birthday. I was 5 or 6.   My childhood was very ‘sheltered’ and ‘regimented’ and I was never included in family discussions or asked [...]

My first Major League baseball game was in the friendly confines of Wrigley Field when I was five years old. Wrigley was also the same park that my dad saw his first MLB game in. Some of the best [...]

My very first MLB game was at Yankee Stadium on Saturday, October 3, 1964, when the Yanks clinched their 5th straight AL flag, on the 2nd-to-last day of the season (and only 14,879 people showed [...]

I lost my Dad, Richard L. Manheimer, to prostate cancer in 1994. He was 54 years old. For his 49th birthday my Mom surprised him (because you’d expect something big for your 50th birthday, [...]

My First Day was in April 1971. my brother Mark and I were 7 and 5.  Dad took us to Candlestick park to see the Giants and Cubs.  I knew enough about baseball to know Willie Mays was a big deal.  [...]

Because Kansas City was the closest city to where we lived (Lincoln, NE), that had a major league baseball team, I started following the Royals as soon as the franchise moved to KC in 1969. When [...]

My first ball game was in 1989. My dad took me to Cincinnati to watch the Giants. I will never forget it. I was only 5 years old. We took the escalators to the upper level and I didn’t know [...]

July of 1991, Rangers vs Angels. I got to see Abbott and Brown battle it out and some of the best Ranger players when they were starting out- Gonzales, Sierra, Pudge and Palmeiro. I was 7 yrs old [...]

Thank you for the opportunity to submit my first MLB game story.  I’ll be 70 years old on October 26, 2016 and live in the Fort Worth, TX area near my 2 children and 5 grandchildren and [...]