My First Baseball Game

dano7 · Dec 25, 2012

PROJECT COMPLETED!
I purchased a Tom Cheney 2012 Leaf History of Baseball auto for my collection of players I saw in my first baseball game on 8/1/62, with the Yankees at the Senators for a double header. I need one more autograph, Dan O'Connell, to complete the list of players I have autos of from that game.
Tom Cheney is the only player to have 21 strikeouts in a game....of course he pitched 16 innings to earn it, also in 1962.
DANNY

Hendersonfan · Dec 25, 2012

Pretty solid! Does said player have many auto's out there?

moxacaine · Dec 25, 2012

very cool. Is Oconnel going to be a tough find?

dano7 · Dec 25, 2012

I've been looking for an O'Connell for over a year. One will turn up sometime. He died in 1969, so there aren't alot of sigs out there.
DANNY

Mighty Bombjack · Dec 25, 2012

Respect! That is a great project, and one that this particular Leaf product (History of Baseball) is perfect for. Good luck on O'Connell, but sometimes finishing a project like this is bittersweet.

dano7 · Dec 26, 2012

Here is a copy of my box scores for the double-header. I've highlighted in orange as I got the autos.
DANNY

MansGame · Dec 26, 2012

This is very very cool. I don't even remember the first game I went too as a kid but I guess I was lucky enough to go to many, so they have all blended together.

dano7 · Aug 3, 2013

PROJECT COMPLETED!
I found a nice Danny O'Connell on Ebay and went for it. I paid $85, but thought it was a nice clean autograph to complete autographs of players from my first baseball game(s) on 8/1/1962 (Doubleheader between the Senators & Yankees in DC)...almost 51 years later.
DANNY

r2d2 · Aug 3, 2013

Congratulations. That's an amazing project. I wish I could remember which was my first game.

MansGame · Aug 3, 2013

Congrats! Pretty cool project! I don't even remember the first game I attended lol

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dano7 · Aug 3, 2013

MansGame said:
Congrats! Pretty cool project! I don't even remember the first game I attended lol

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I had to do some research, as I had the program & ticket stubs from the game. The research was finding the box scores from the games to see exactly who played.
DANNY

Mighty Bombjack · Aug 3, 2013

So cool.

I have the stub from my first game somewhere in my childhood bedroom. Next time I'm down there, I will dig it out and go to retrosheet to see what a project like this would entail.

Probably wouldn't be too tough or pricey, as I know it was a phillies/cardinals game in 1982.

dano7 · Aug 3, 2013

Mighty Bombjack said:
So cool.

I have the stub from my first game somewhere in my childhood bedroom. Next time I'm down there, I will dig it out and go to retrosheet to see what a project like this would entail.

Probably wouldn't be too tough or pricey, as I know it was a phillies/cardinals game in 1982.

When you decide to start, please let us know. I'd like to follow your project.
DANNY

Lancemountain · Aug 4, 2013

Very cool project and congrats on finishing it!

69MetsFan · Aug 4, 2013

This is a great idea for a project that you can take your time to finish.
My first game was a Mets game in the summer of 1969 but I don't recall the exact date.

SteelBrad · Aug 4, 2013

Very cool!

dano7 · Aug 4, 2013

I'm looking forward to seeing others start their own projects.
DANNY

MansGame · Aug 4, 2013

dano7 said:
I had to do some research, as I had the program & ticket stubs from the game. The research was finding the box scores from the games to see exactly who played.
DANNY

Very cool

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