Now that is cool. Bet those are some lifetime memories.

Pete, wasn't that the Reggie "hip and run" game?

I went to games 3,4 and 5 in Oakland in 1974. I had just graduated high school, and with nothing better to do I took a Greyhound from Phoenix to Oakland.I had bought the tickets in advance, because in those days they didn't sell out. I was (and still am) a Cubs fan, but I wanted to see a World Series.

I had a ticket in the lower deck looking down the 1st base line. I had a perfect view when Bill Buckner singled to lead off the 8th. The ball got past Billy North in right-center. Buckner took second and tried for third, but Reggie and Dick Green threw him out.I can still remember Green taking that relay while I thought "no way can they get him." But he made a perfect throw, and saved the game.

I have attended ---
 

Lifetime Detroit fan but have had the opportunity to attend World Series games with my sons. I take no other real vacations.

1978 3, 4, 5
1998 1
1999 4
2000 1
2001 4, 5
2003. 1, 6
2004. 1
2006. 1
2007. 1
2008. 4
2009. 2
2010. 3
2012 3 4
2013 1, 3, 6
2014 4
2015 1

Keith H Thompson grand-nephew of Sam Thompson (Detroit 1885-1888, Philadelphia 1889-1898, Detroit 1906, HOF 1974)

I went to the '74 Series even though I wasn't a fan of the A's or Dodgers. I'm a baseball fan, and it was a great experience.

I also went to a concert by the Talking Heads and the B52s, and neither of them are my favorite band. :D

Hey Keith, first post? Welcome to the board. :)

Sean, My first post and probably last. I note the Woodland address. I'm a graduate of UCDavis (1952). A classmate of mine (Phyllis Burr) lived on a farm in Woodland. I was best man at her wedding. Keith

Two posts every four years isn't bad :). Do you have any of your relative's cards?

Great story. But still glad I was at game 6 in 2011. In 1982 we got our tickets from Pee Wee Reese who was the rep for H&B( Louisville Slugger). My wife was a shareholder

Had season tickets to the first year of the Marlins. Gave them up after the first year, but then in 1997 a few days before the season I looked at the team and thought they had a great chance to go to the world series. Called up the ticket office, bought two 1/2-year season tickets that guaranteed me those seats for the post season.

Went to every post season game down here that year, and that means i was in the stadium when the world series went to extra innings and Renteria won it with a single up the middle to score Counsel. Went totally nuts!!! What an accomplishment for a team that had been around such a short time!!!

Then in 2003 the Marlins played my true love, the Yankees. Tickets sold out fast here, and had to pay scalper prices to go to one game. Marlins broke my heart by beating the Yankees in the series, but at least the game i went to was a Yankee win!!!!!

Having grown up on NY and subsequently LA, there was never a chance I could have attended a WS game (I was young and my Dad wasn't really a baseball fan). Later, I moved myself to the Bay Area. When the A's made it to the Series I still had that mentality. I kicked myself in the tush when I later found out I could have walked up to the gate on the day of a game and gotten a ticket. Still haven't been to a WS game, although several playoff games.

Life as I know it
 

Great stories everyone. I can claim to have attended a World Series ticket line, and having used my credit card to purchase tickets.

In 1998 when the Padres made the World Series I took off work to stand in line at Jack Murphy Stadium to buy tickets for a group of friends. By the time I got to the window they only had multiple seats together for game 5. They did have individual tickets for game 3. I decided against buying the game 3 ticket for myself, and purchased the group of game 5 tickets.

I am proud to say I received a full refund. However, that might have been my only shot at attending a World Series. I will probably have to settle for the glorious distinction of having purchased World Series tickets.

Brian

2001 Game 4 with My Son, Jeter Mr. November
2003 Game 1 again with My Son
2009 Game 2 with My Wife.

All Great memories
First Yankees Post season was a 98 ALDS game vs Rangers with the whole Family..

World Series Games Attended
 

1988 - LA Dodgers/A's - Kirk Gibson HR
1989 - SF Giants/A's - Earthquake Game
1998 - SD Padres/NY Yankees - Game 1
2000 - NY Mets/NY Yankees - Games 1-2-5
2001 - Diamondbacks/NY Yankees - Games 1-2
2002 - SF Giants/Anaheim Angels - Games 1-2 - 7
Jerry Sage

1980 game 6
1986 game 1
1993 game 5

I've never been to a game myself, but my dad went to game 7 in 1960 and saw Maz hit the homer, along with all the other craziness in that game. He was a student at Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University) at the time.

2004 game 2
2007 game 1

Saw 2008 Game 5, or at least the first 5 1/2 innings: I was living abroad but came to Philly for two days for a meeting, coincidentally during the WS. My dad surprised me with one ticket (he said, at that price, one was all I'd get!) for my birthday (also coincidentally around that time). When the game was suspended in the sixth, I had to face the painful fact I had to fly out the next day and couldn't see what wound up being the clinching end to Game 5. I had to give my stub to a friend who caught the last bit of the game two nights later. But at least I saw part of a WS game!

My son took me to game 2 this year. Sadly the Tribe lost and the game never was even close. But the experience was once-in-a-lifetime. the lousy weather really dampened the whole experience and ambiance. I can only imagine how much fun it is to go to a tight ballgame, in decent weather, with a really pumped-up crowd.

And before that, what I'd do when the Yankees were in all those post-season games, I'd walk around the ballpark without tickets - not to try and buy one, but just to soak up the post-season vibe. I didn't do this every game, just once during each series, usually the first home game.

Once I even found a counterfeit ticket lying on the ground!

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5248/5...765c467e_z.jpg

A few times I'd walk around holding up a sign saying "I NEED O TICKETS" or "I DON'T NEED NO TICKETS." Some people thought that was a subtle way of saying that I actually was looking for tickets, so they'd come up to me and ask if I needed tickets. I quickly pulled out another sign: "ONLY IF THEY'RE FREE."

Good times.

Late to this thread, but I attended two Marlins home games in the '97 World Series, one of them a few rows up behind home plate. The first game went 14 or so innings and the Marlins won. I've never felt such amazing crowd energy at any other sporting event.

My lifelong love of the Dodgers, even though I grew up in the SF Bay area, was solidified when my dad took me to game 5 in 1974.

The first game a saw in Fenway was game 3 in 1986. Damn you Oil Can Boyd.

Doug

it was...crazy night!!!!

In 1993 two of my daughters worked for the Phillies in the family room where players could drop off there children before the game for baby sitting. Each received a letter entitling them to one ticket to each playoff and World Series game. Yes I did, convince my wife and buy both packages. I went to all games, each with a different person. My daughters did get to one game, my wife went to one game, I went to all the games and am still recovering from the Phillies loss to Toronto.

Games 1,6,7 1986 At Shea
3,5 2000 At Shea
4,5 2015 at Citiield

Games 1 through 7 of 2002 to see "my" Angels only WS appearance and win! The crowning moment of my "fan-hood" and well worth the $ (probably because the won)... The Game 6 comeback was amazing! Loved it!

I am cheating a little bit but while I have never attended a World Series game I did attend game one of the 1987 NLCS in St. Louis against San Francisco.

That afternoon while waiting outside I saw Duke Snider, Hank Aaron and dozens of other Hall of Famers walking into the stadium. An hour before the game the gates in center opened and out came the Clydesdales pulling the Budweiser wagon with Mr. Busch riding next to the driver, dalmatian barking. While the organist played the Bud theme music the wagon made two laps around the stadium with the crowd absolutely going wild. Pooper scoopers followed.

Ozzie did his flip and then Jeffrey Leonard did his home run trot with "one flap down." I have been to a couple of NFL playoff games and several bowl games but the excitement that night tops them all.

1970 ws
 

I've only attended one WS game and that was game 4 of the 1970 WS with my father at Memorial Stadiun, Orioles vs. Reds. What's kinda funny is it's the only game the Orioles lost, but it was a great game. I got to see Brooksie homer and thought at the time they were going to take it, but the Reds scored, I think 3 runs, late in the game to take a one run lead. Exciting game!

My father was able to go to several Orioles WS games. Game 3 and 4 of the O's vs. Dodgers he went with a friend/coworker and he'd talk about quite often. Wouldn't really talk at all about the '69 Series except to say thE O's should have won. My father passed away a couple years ago so I miss the sporting conversations immensely.

He took me to a couple of Super Bowls as well, but that's a different topic.

Every game 96,and 98 yankee stadium. God do I miss the old stadium

I've been to several playoff games, but only one World Series so far. It was 2013 game 3 StL vs Boston (the Allen Craig obstruction call game). I seem to make it to the historically weird ones. I was also at the rally squirrel playoff game in 2011 and in 2000 when Rick Ankiel could only throw wild pitches.

I had tickets to 2 home games in Texas when the Rangers played the Giants in 2010 and had tickets to a game in 2011. But some last-minute things came up both times, and I didn't get to go to any of the 3.. Closest I've gotten because Texas has never been back.

Rich I hope you were rooting for the Sox in that game! Blum was the Bucky Dent in that game.