What is your favorite baseball memory???

Question

Mine is Spring Training 2008, going into the pressbox at Fenway Park, and getting an all the conversations I've had with the "not so popular" ball players...

Answer 1

That is easy for me. My favorite memory was last year when the Mets collapsed and the Phillies surged to first to take the division from the Mets on the last day of the season.

Answer 2

In general? The 2004 ALCS and World Series, and the 2007 World Series.  

Games I was at?  Clay Buchholtz no-hitter, Curt Schilling's 200th career win, Papelbon's 20th consecutive save his rookie year.

Answer 3

Today will always be a nice baseball memory... Santana's complete game, all the home runs, Beltran's catch.

But besides that I will say the NLDS 2006 Mets vs. Dodgers. game 3.  I was there and it was the first time I had seen all the players in person. surreal.

Answer 4

On fathers days June 18, 2006 when Carlos Lee was still a brewer.  He hit a 3 run walk-off homerun in the bottom of the 9th to beat the Cleveland Indians.  It was Cecil Cooper's bobblehead game.

Answer 5

Easy for me. Charlie Hayes catching Mark Lemke's foul ball to give the Yankees the 1996 World Series. My favorite because it was the first Yankees championship I could remember. (I was alive for '77 and '78, but couldn't really appreciate it being a toddler.)

Second, and I mean close second, was Aaron Boone going deep on Tim Wakefield to end the 2003 ALCS. I screamed so d**n loud that my neighbors heard me. I stayed up until 3 a.m. and went to work the next day bleary-eyed and oh so happy! Best of all was seeing my Sox fan boss sulking all day the next day. You couldn't have done a d**n thing to p**s me off that day.

(Note: My boss wasn't at my job in '04, so I was spared that nonsense.)

Answer 6

When i went to the mets brewers game on mothers day and bill hall hit a walk off homer with a pink bat

Answer 7

2004 alcs how can you beat that hahaaaa!!!! sucks for NY greatest baseball comeback now that was crazy!!!

Answer 8

Wow, getting into the pressbox at Fenway would be hard to beat!  Hard to pick just one, but mine would include:

1.  First baseball game at Fenway Park in 1971 - 10 yrs old.  Red Sox defeat Tigers 12-11, with help of grand slam by Bob Montomery, and 9th-inning walk-off hit by Rico Petrocelli

2.  Parade for 2004 World Champion Red Sox through the streets of Boston...along with 2,999,999 other screaming fans

3. Game 6 of 1975 World Series.  Homer by Bernie Carbo with 2 out in 8th ties score; brilliant catch by Dwight Evans off Joe Morgan shot keeps it tied; homer by Fisk in extra innings wins it!

4. The comeback of Tony Conigliaro - hit 100th ML homer at age 22 (still earliest in history) - beaned in 1967 and lost for the season...lingering problems forced early retirement - fought back, tried out for team and returned to lineup on Opening Day 1975, and singled in first at bat.  Hit last ML homerun later that month.

5. Carl Yastremski, 1982, his final season;

*Received standing ovation after being introduced before first at bat.... at YANKEE STADIUM!!

*Prior to last game @ Fenway...after being honored in pre-game ceremony, makes spontaneous lap around the ballpark to dellirious ovations, while organ played "The Impossible Dream".  Right before entering the dugout, he gave his cap to a young boy in the front row, who was beside himself with excitement!

6. Season Opener, Fenway, 2005, vs Yankees:

*During introduction of Yankee players, Boston crowd gives Mariano Rivera a loud ovation (he allowed stolen base to Dave Roberts and game-tying single in 9th inning, blowing save in last year's playoff game) - and in response, he smiled and waved to the crowd!  Everybody broke up laughing!! I was still laughing days afterward!!

*During ring ceremony, I started waxing sentimental, and said to myself 'Wouldn't it be great if they honored someone like Johnny Pesky with a ring'?  (He served the Red Sox as a player and in other capacities for 60 years).  Then, lo and behold, the team surprised everyone by presenting the very last ring him!  I was moved to tears.

Man, I've got to stop!!  This is already too long, but the memories run deep and brought me such joy.  If you're a Sox fan like me, I know you understand!   :)

Answer 9

Well if it's for a game I was at, and me being a Mets fan, it would have to be on June 11, 2005 seeing Marlon Anderson hit a pinch-hit inside the park home run at Shea Stadium (it was the first in the stadium in 17 years or something) that tied the game for the Mets in the bottom of the 9th inning.  Cliff Floyd then hit a walk off homer in the 10th to win the game.

My other favorite memory of a game I was at was Game 7 of the 2006 NLCS.  Even though the Mets lost the game (and with it, the playoffs), seeing the catch that Endy Chavez made to rob the home run was amazing, and one of the best catches ever, period.

Answer 10

During the 2004 ALCS, I turned off Game 4 in the 8th inning.  I just couldn't force myself to watch what I thought would be yet another humiliation at the hands of those New Yorkers.  

Woke up the next morning, and watched that stupid ticker that runs under the news.  I waited for the bad news and I saw

"Red Sox.....beat.....Yankees....."  I was practically hysterical with disbelief and joy.  What a feeling!

Answer 11

when ramon hernandez dropped a sacrifice squeeze in the 2004 alds against the red sox and won and avoided elimination.

Answer 12

A few years ago, when the LA Dodgers slammed FOUR HOMERS IN A ROW

Answer 13

When Babe Ruth calls his shot

Answer 14

Cant really remember which game it was but Johnny Damon hit a grand slam in the 04 playoffs.