If you could go back in time to visit one game...

[Piratedogcardshows]

I would like to have seen Ty Cobb at his peak.Running the bases with reckless abandonment.

I'd love to have seen a game Jimmy Claxton pitched in, but not the game when he integrated the PCL (1916). Instead I'd go with Claxton in his prime. His only recorded no-hitter (June 22, 1924) in the Tacoma Industrial League. The first two men got on due to errors and Claxton finished the rest in order (4-1 victory). Claxton also led the league in stolen bases that season, beating out a young centerfielder for the Tacoma Avenuers named Roy Johnson.

Fielder Jones was the president of the T.I.L.. When Babe Ruth came to town on a barnstorming tour in October 1924, the only pitcher to throw a no-hitter that season (Claxton) was left off the TIL All-Star roster. Would ask Fielder WTF?

http://digitum.washingtonhistory.org...ISOBOX=1&REC=1

Babe, center, middle row

[billyb]

Tough call, I would have liked to see Cobb play, and would love to have been at Larsen's world series perfect game, and Mazerowski's 1960 homer against the Yanks, I did see and remember the noise at the game over the TV.
But watching the Babe play ball everyday with a youthful joy would have to be on top of my wish list. He just had fun.

billyb

[Runscott]

The first game at Hoboken field.

(I could easily create a 'top 10' list for this topic )

[Jlighter]

Called Shot
Or
Shot Heard Round the World

[EvilKing00]

100% called shot , not only to see babe but to see if he called it

[CMIZ5290]

The game where Ty Cobb and Kid Elberfeld went at it in the parking lot after the game.....I bet that was a doozy!

[whitehse]

Originally Posted by EvilKing00

100% called shot , not only to see babe but to see if he called it

I had the good fortune to work for the Cubs for seven years in the 80's and was able to talk to several of the "old timers" who hang around the ball park about the Ruth called shot. A few of these people I talked to were former players who were not on the field that day but in the stands and another was the electrician who worked at Wrigley back then. Each person, to a man states that Ruth didnt call his shot but was pointing to the Cubs dugout after the first pitch and said "thats one!". The second pitch came and he yelled to the Cubs dugoot, "Thats two!". On the last pitch he parked it over the temporary bleachers and laughed his ass off all the way around the bases.

The film that emerged a few years ago seem to back this story up and yes, this is the one game I wish I could go back and see. Listening to the old men who were actually there was as close as I am ever going to get.