This may have been the first game I attended on my own. During the years of ’67 and ’68, my father worked in Manhattan and commuted via the LIRR. On Weekends and holidays, I could use his commutation ticket into NYC for free. If I had .30 cents for the round trip subway fare, .50 […]
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August 22, 1964 – Cubs vs. Mets
This is the first game I attended where I kept a scorecard. My dad took me, my brother Bob, and my mom’s Uncle Mark Baliff to visit Shea Stadium for the first time. My Uncle Mark was from Akron, Ohio and an avid baseball fan. It was because of him that we went to the […]
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