Thank you for the opportunity to submit my first MLB game story. I’ll be 70 years old on October 26, 2016 and live in the Fort Worth, TX area near my 2 children and 5 grandchildren and watch on TV every Rangers game. I saw Mike Milken’s interview on June 3rd on Fox SW and heard about the Home Run Challenge and a suggestion to write about our first major league game we saw. So here’s my story.
I grew up in a small college town of Edmond, OK. Played little league baseball and was a huge baseball fan and baseball card collector back then. My favorite team was the New York Yankees. Of course because of Mickey Mantle from Oklahoma. A friend of mine asked me if I’d like to go with him and his parents to Kansas City to see them play the New York Yankees.
I was so excited and I got to watch the Kansas City Athletics (now in Oakland) play the New York Yankees in 1962 with Mickey, Roger, Yogi and all the great Yankees.
Over the years, I had forgot about the pennant that I bought at the game. When my mother passed away several years ago, she had a box full of things from my childhood. Inside the box was that pennant I bought in 1962. Today, it’s framed and on my wall in the active senior apartment I live in… that I see everyday to remind me of that great day in 1962, my first Major League Baseball game I saw live and in person.
Thank you for all you do to combat prostate cancer. I’ve been blessed with good health, but I’m glad you’re there if I need you as I grow older. And oh, would I love to see a World Series game or an All Star game before I die, which would take me back to my childhood, something marvelous when you’re old.
