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Originally Posted by Reed
Okay, showing my age.
First MLB game I went to. July 1961.
Our little league team and several others took train from Ft. Wayne to Chicago to watch Yankees play White Sox. Sat in Left Field and remember Yogi Berra playing left and waiving at us. Roger Maris hit a home run enroute to his 61. The Sox had 3 home runs making to scoreboard go off. The Sox got a 4 or 5 run lead but the Yankees came back to win 9-8 in 10 innings. Minnie Minoso made an outstanding defensive play. The experience was a thrill.
During the pandemic while shut in I found a radio broadcast of the game on the internet so I got to listen to it after seeing it 60 years earlier. My wife thought I was crazy for listening to it.
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Oh my, were you a Ft. Wayne Komets fan?