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Amazin69 · 09-01-2024, 05:03 PM

So they show the video of G. Thomas Seaver winning #300, in White Sox uniform at Yankee Stadium, and I really do need to watch the full telecast at some point. Because when they show that shot of Nancy Seaver being embraced by her daughter, Sara, I'm like over there <---------. one aisle out the frame, in the front row. I may be visible at some point; I've literally never checked.

I had started in the upper deck, sat through the Rizzuto Day ceremonies and the first two innings in the heat, then spotted open seats in that box, and went for it. (Steinbrenner may have revised the framework of the House that Ruth Built, but the guts were the same, and it was easy-peasy to get to the field level, which [unlike Shea and Dodger Stadia] was not gated off; all you had to do was buy some food and act as though you were returning to your seat.) I first sat in like the 5th row or so, but when it was clear there were front-row seats available, I went for it, and saw the last 4 or 5 innings from the very front.

Don Baylor's fly ball ended the game, but on Baylor's previous AB, he sent a little squib to the backstop, right in front of me. I leaned over…and fumbled the ball away, and the guy next to me got it. Haunted me for years.

(I didn't get a foul until the 2016 game when Curtis Granderson switch-hit the HRs in extra-innings; one to tie the game after Buxton's blast gave the Twins the lead, the next to win it, an inning later. Having spent the previous game up top, I splurged for the "Shea Club" or whatever it's called seats (only $100 or so) and unlike all the actually rich people, I was in my seat at the start. Brian Dozier took two balls to start the game, then fouled the third pitch over the screen [which nowadays goes all the way back to the face of the loge seats] and directly at me. Showing I had developed exactly ZERO skills in the intervening 31 years, I lost it on the way down…but it lodged right in my seat and I grabbed it before scavengers descended from the next section over.

So I did, finally, get a foul ball, and a fairly significant one at that. But nothing like the Seaver 300th would have been.)

09-01-2024, 05:03 PM	#2727
Amazin69 Banned Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Palmetto Pride! Posts: 4,218 Infractions: 0/4 (4)	So they show the video of G. Thomas Seaver winning #300, in White Sox uniform at Yankee Stadium, and I really do need to watch the full telecast at some point. Because when they show that shot of Nancy Seaver being embraced by her daughter, Sara, I'm like over there <---------. one aisle out the frame, in the front row. I may be visible at some point; I've literally never checked. I had started in the upper deck, sat through the Rizzuto Day ceremonies and the first two innings in the heat, then spotted open seats in that box, and went for it. (Steinbrenner may have revised the framework of the House that Ruth Built, but the guts were the same, and it was easy-peasy to get to the field level, which [unlike Shea and Dodger Stadia] was not gated off; all you had to do was buy some food and act as though you were returning to your seat.) I first sat in like the 5th row or so, but when it was clear there were front-row seats available, I went for it, and saw the last 4 or 5 innings from the very front. Don Baylor's fly ball ended the game, but on Baylor's previous AB, he sent a little squib to the backstop, right in front of me. I leaned over…and fumbled the ball away, and the guy next to me got it. Haunted me for years. (I didn't get a foul until the 2016 game when Curtis Granderson switch-hit the HRs in extra-innings; one to tie the game after Buxton's blast gave the Twins the lead, the next to win it, an inning later. Having spent the previous game up top, I splurged for the "Shea Club" or whatever it's called seats (only $100 or so) and unlike all the actually rich people, I was in my seat at the start. Brian Dozier took two balls to start the game, then fouled the third pitch over the screen [which nowadays goes all the way back to the face of the loge seats] and directly at me. Showing I had developed exactly ZERO skills in the intervening 31 years, I lost it on the way down…but it lodged right in my seat and I grabbed it before scavengers descended from the next section over. So I did, finally, get a foul ball, and a fairly significant one at that. But nothing like the Seaver 300th would have been.) Last edited by Amazin69; 09-01-2024 at 05:05 PM.