It’s baseball season! Are you excited? For many of you, this is probably your favorite time of the year. For others of you, you might not care about baseball, perhaps football is more your thing? Either way, peanuts and cracker jacks are flying off the shelves, and the balls are flying at full speed!
Did you know… The first professional baseball team was the Cincinnati Red Stockings, who were considered a professional team in 1869. Later that year, 11 other teams turned professional. Read more baseball facts here.
Have you ever attended a professional, major or minor league, baseball game? Please tell us in the poll below. Thanks!
I used to work at Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego as a kid. Met some of the most famous BB players and football players of all time.
I met Willie Mays and shook hands with Jonny Unitas and shagged punts from Ray Guy back in the day!
It was a great childhood growing up in San Diego!
I’ve been a partial season plan holder for the Washington Nationals since they came to DC since 2005. I’ve seen them have a season where they lost a hundred games, and I saw them play in the world series. Even bad baseball is still a nice day in a ballpark cheering on the players and watching the game develop one pitch at a time.
I grew up following the KC Athletics and drooling over those days when my Dad would take us to a ball game. That was an authentic family day out, including my Dad cussing about finding a parking spot. I don’t remember Municipal Stadium having a parking lot, maybe it did, but I do remember it being surrounded by a neighborhood. After the Athletics left and the Royals came to town, my friends I still went to the ball game, but it was me looking for the right parking spot. The ‘newer’ stadium has a real parking lot. It was always more fun to sit in the cheap ($1.50?) seats with a louder crowd. Does that date me, or what?
My friend! I remember the Athletics but never saw a game. I started going after the Royals came to town (see post above!).
I checked yes, but the last time I went, Ted Williams was playing for the Red Sox. Today you have to take out a 2nd mortgage to go to any pro sports game.
Player’s today are overpaid prima Donna’s.
Family fans were split between the Cardinals and the Cubs so a weekend series was the rule (in alternating cities).
Color me gone now on all sports! Bunch of over paid crybabies, not worthy to call themselves American!
Joe Allen, you knocked it out of the park. You are right on every level. Sports have become politicized. It should be a place that we can all get away from politics and the stresses of every day life but the cry babies have ruined it! I am over it as well and won’t watch again! RV’ing is more fun anyway!
Ditto for myself and others, I’m sure.
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I agree, goes for baseball, basketball, and football. Have no further interest in any of them. No “pro” sports what so ever!
Yep in 1955 my dad was working for Fisher Body Div. of GM and got tickets through them and we went to see the Cubs play the Cardinals, and the Cubs won.
Sadly I don’t actually remember any of it. I was 4 or younger when my dad (both parents??) took me to see the SF Giants
I can’t see helping the pro’s and owners getting even richer. Sand lot is a lot more fun to watch.
Been to home games for
Tigers – In old Tiger Stadium.
Cardinals
Brewers
Also a few games of our local Northwoods League team
I enjoyed grabbing a beer and kicking back watching the girls watching the players. Good entertainment for an afternoon.
My dad was a huge fan. He made a point to see every stadium he could and I went with him. Mom was not as big a fan but this way we had more family vacations. I really liked the old parks like Fenway and the like(most are now gone). The new mega stadiums make it less personal.
I lived in the St Louis area for several years. I went to dozens of games every year. Later, when I lived in Louisville, while working for an airline (inexpensive flights) I would go to St Louis multiple times every season.
NEVER again, I will not support MLB in any way.
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I stopped going to almost all pro sports a few years ago. MLB was the first that I ‘cancelled’ quickly followed by the NBA and now all of them.
This latest Georgia flap just reassures me that I was right.
The only people worth saving are the disenfranchised frontline game day workers!
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Majors 20 plus years ago, too expensive now.
Minor league is even getting out of hand in the price range if you can get tickets.
Sports has become too political, don’t need it.
I watch high school and some college sports.
I haven’t attended a professional baseball game for several years and don’t plan on EVER attending another one, the players are totally overpaid and under perform!!!!!!
Went to Toronto Blue Jays games and had season tickets until the players went on strike. That was a final straw that the game was for big income earners not for fans of baseball. Refused from then on not to pay outrageous prices ever again.
I attended a few minor league ball games prior to retiring. That’s when I discovered I really don’t care for baseball. I haven’t been to a game in over ten years.
Now with all the politics they push I’ve given up on all sports. I couldn’t care less for any of them.
Won’t support ANY entity that supports Commie Culture.
and given MLB’s woke decision to move the all-star game out of Georgia it looks like i’ve seen my last MLB game. i’ve been a Cubs fan since 1968 and we have been going to Chicago Cubs spring training for decades. gonna miss that. i will likely return to MLB and my Cubs when and if the current MLB commish resigns or is fired. i’m not holding my breath.
Yes, one time.
Attended many games in various stadiums including spring training games. Our goal was to have a beer and bag of peanuts in every major league stadium. However now after the bonehead decision made by the MLB to get involved in Politics and move the all star game I have given up on this and watching baseball on TV! I wish sports would just stay out of politics and do what they do best and just entertain!
YES! Many, starting with growing up in the KC area….lots of Royals games, back in their 70s heyday (George Brett era). Moved to Arlington TX just before they built their “new” (then) stadium, but saw several games in their old I-30 stadium as well, as well as the original Beach Boys there.
I can STILL listen to baseball on radio and feel like I’m there…. except I don’t know the players any more. 😕
Diane….. try sending these comments to MLB, and see if they care at all at how many of us they’ve lost.😞
Wow …. How’d I do that?! Part of my comments in my user name?? My tablet keyboard hates me….. <– the only explanation.
Wasn’t sure how to answer, growing up Florida had no major league teem of its own but we did go to the various spring training games. They were pros but not season games and the top players had very little play time.
I was a diehard SF Giants fan since a kid thru adulthood. I even went to games on my own and scored them. First change came when they traded Will Clark & Matt Williams. Then the issue with Barry Bonds. Then the strike. That was the end. Shared Warrior NBA season tickets w/sister and loved football (younger 3 brothers, as kids, became Cowboy fans because of me😂, we lived in CA🤷♀️) & went to 2 Super Bowls (then brother in law played for Dolphins). All changed when players were getting arrested (my son stopped watching calling the NFL, National Felon League). A number of years ago, tried to get back into it a bit. Once the politics hit, again we were out. It’s suppose to be entertainment. A chance to escape for a few hours. Done with the lectures we don’t need from most who are just virtual signaling so they don’t get cancel cultured.
It’s obvious by the comments that MLB and some other sports as well have outpriced themselves. Problem is some folks have the $’s and don’t care. The stadiums are full. The worst part is that they allow the food vendors to rip off the family’s with $8. hotdogs and $5 drinks. Average price to take a family of 4 to a game now is getting close to $400. Firefighters make $40-80,000 a year, while a baseball player gets 1.2 million just for signing up. Then they make the $80,000 every time they go to bat. Love baseball but won’t support that kind of idiocy.
I grew up in Illinois near St Louis and am a die-hard Cardinals fan. Love baseball and have been to many games. Where I grew up, people were split between being fans of the Cards or the Cubs. That’s a big, fun rivalry. My boyfriend is a Cubs fan!! 😳
We are big time Astros fans. We attend a couple of games a year and my brother is a season ticket holder.
I’ve been to many of both. Even to Spring Training in Arizona. Dodger fan my entire life, even sat next to Tom Lasorda at a Spring Training game, chatted a little. And I refuse to let the phony sjw MLB management ruin my love of the game. Because it’s all about the young men who love to play, and their fans… GO Dodgers!
About 50 years ago, my dad took me to Yankee Stadium to see the Yankees play the Detroit Tigers. 10 ~ 20 years ago, I went several times the see the Long Island Ducks (a minor league team) play. I enjoyed the minor league teams and the Duck’s stadium in particular MUCH more than “the Pros”. As a Full Time RVer, I rarely get back to Long Island, NY but, if it were SAFE and convenient, I would go see another minor league game. I fully agree with others who have posted that “Professional” baseball is no longer for “the little guy”. Sadly, I believe that sentiment applies to MOST “Professional Sports” these days. With the mega-salaries most “pros” get along with the “Professional Stadiums” that the tax payer gets stuck paying for, “Professional Sports” has very much become a rich man’s pastime.
Been to both. Major league at Candlestick park in San Francisco growing up and minor league at Dickey Stephen’s park in Little Rock, Arkansas to watch Arkansas Travelers.
Major league games in Seattle, San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angles, San Diego, St. Louis and Chicago (both stadiums), spring training In Arizona and many minor league games. Although baseball ranks 3 on my list of favorite sports, there is something magical about a baseball stadium, especially on a warm summer evening.
Oh, I forgot to add Toronto
Used to love professional sports. Not anymore. Been to my last “Pro” game of any kind.
Yes back in the early sixties i was a batboy clubhouse boy for the Albuquerque dukes great memories and met alot of the rich kids
Over 50 years ago. It was fun then. You couldn’t pay me to go now.
We Will Never Support Nor Attend Any Major League Ball Team, Club Or Assoc… Its A True Shame What Has Occured To American Professional Sports! (Woke College Sports As Well)…
I agree 100%. Never again.
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Yes. Back in the 60s with my father and grandfather to see the Mets at Shea stadium and about 16 years ago to Montreal for an Expos game. Not as exciting as it used to be.
Yes, however I will not go again and will not watch and or support MLB again due to their woke and ccp support. Same go for colleges.
Could not agree more.
You are 100% correct.
Means cheaper tickets for me! (And something tells me you probably didn’t go that often anyway – people who make comments like yours tend to shout that they’ll boycott Coke, while hiding a DIet Coke…)
Jeff…they obviously are not fans
Am I the only one who is reading the comments, with so many of these ‘Old Fogies’ complaining about ‘cancel culture’, by stating they will ‘cancel’ ever going to another baseball game…
How far this once mighty Nation has fallen.
Oh, and my wife and I go to MLB (Mariners), AAA (Everett Aquasox), NHL (Canucks/Flyers/Devils), NASCAR (so many tracks….) and would go to NFL games if we could afford Seahawks tickets or if my wife could tolerate it. Sports are for fun, but the athletes are people, too – they are not there to entertain you like a circus animal! If they see something wrong, they have as much a right to speak up about it as you do. Get over yourselves.
It was such a simple question about a sporting event. Are so many RVers rabid, unhappy, politicians ? I thought all were out there enjoying nature – away from the crap of the world.
Have attended several major league baseball games since 1968 (2 years after the Milwaukee Braves moved to Atlanta – 2 hours away by car) and several minor league games since 1975 (when my hometown of Chattanooga got a minor league team after lacking one for 10 years). Minor league games are more fun for us; ticket prices and concession prices are much lower than at major league parks. Also, it is fun to discuss who will or won’t make it to the majors and for how long while watching a minor league game. One year we might even make travel plans based on minor league schedules of teams within 5 or 6 hours of our home base. I have often imagined doing so would be a lot of fun and include interesting towns to explore during the day, before the night’s game begins.
Back many years ago, I had season tickets to our local minor team in Lansing, MI. “Lug nuts”.
The whole city used to support them. Now, not so much.
Went to a Ranger preseason game a few years ago. 4 of us, I got the snacks, 4 beer and 4 footlong hotdogs, close to $125.00. guess that was my last ” Pro” game.
I answered “Yes. Major league”. Almost as boring as golf.
Love the game but political BS has ruined it for many. Why would one be against legal voting security? This poll isn’t rigged, is it?