"Missed it by THAT much"

[aphanna25]

One of my personal Holy Grail items has been the lineup card to the first Red Sox game I ever attended as a child (June 14, 1989). I've been searching high and low for years and pulled out most stops I can think of. It's basically a needle in a haystack and I've made my peace that getting it will be a longshot, at best. The one from the day before, however, is there for the taking:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/152343390731...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by aphanna25

One of my personal Holy Grail items has been the lineup card to the first Red Sox game I ever attended as a child (June 14, 1989). I've been searching high and low for years and pulled out most stops I can think of. It's basically a needle in a haystack and I've made my peace that getting it will be a longshot, at best. The one from the day before, however, is there for the taking:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/152343390731...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

If I were you, I would buy that one, maybe when you find the game you want the guy will trade for the one from the day before.

Doug

[doug.goodman]

Nolan Ryan, 2nd career appearance, game 1 of the Sept 18, 1966 doubleheader in Houston

[YankeeFan]

David - I love that Highlanders program. I've haven't seen many. Cool to see a heart breaker like that one.

Doug - Keep 'em coming!

aphanna25 - I agree with Doug...buy that one. At least you'll have a personal "missed by that much" item. Never give up on the real deal.
Thanks for posting; it reminded me of my first game. I wish I could remember the date, but it was Mets vs Pirates in 1967.

[aphanna25]

Even funnier, I suppose, with the "missed it by that much" theme is the item is located in the town abutting where I live. So I can buy the card the day before my Holy Grail, from the town right next door. You can't make this stuff up.

[xplainer]

Not a big time ticket collector, but I do have a full ticket from what was supposed to be the first game at Miller Park, Opening Day 2000. Then the terrible accident happened.
I also have one from the actual first game, Opening Day a year later.

I also have a ticket from the first game played at Turner Field. An exhibition against the Yankees, March 1997.

[YankeeFan]

This is not as near a miss as the others, but I wanted to include this one.

I showed the program for "Mickey Mantle's last game" at Fenway Park, which was actually the Yankees last game of 1968, but Mantle did not play. In fact, according to "The Last Boy", he wasn't even in the ball park that day.

So it is ironic that this faux "Ted Williams last game" item would be for Boston's last game of the 1960 season at Yankee Stadium. A game in which Williams did not play, and was not even at the stadium.




I happen to like Opening Day and last game of the year tickets. Of course, I know I would not have been able to buy this for a few dollars if it really was Williams' last game.