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    Re: When/Where Did You Attend Your First Reds Game? How Old Were You?

    Quote Originally Posted by Kingspoint View Post
    Sep 6th, 1986.

    https://www.baseball-almanac.com/box...d=198309060SFN

    One of 3,562 in attendance on a Tuesday afternoon in Candlestick. Was 24 years old, just hitchhiked from Salem, Oregon to the Bay Area (chose Concord/Walnut Creek/Pleasant Hill area after I saw its population by the nightlights from above on Ygnacio Valley Blvd) in order to get work as a Computer Programmer in the Silicon Valley. Went to the game on crutches after a high ankle sprain a week earlier landing on someone's heal getting a rebound (had jaundice in the leg for over a year). Hard to go down the stairs in the stands on crutches. Tried to get Bench's autograph before the game, but too many others getting it and I didn't want to be pushy at 24. REDS won 11-1, so that was good. Bench didn't play. That was bad. But, I stood three feet from him, so that was good. He was my favorite RED until I switched to Eric Davis in '85 (had a crush on Jose Rijo when he was with the Yankees when he was still a minor and hoped at that time there was a way for the REDS to get him).
    Confused. Bench retired in 1983.

    Edited: Okay, not confused anymore, the link says 1983, but top of your post says 1986.
    Last edited by foster15; 10-22-2020 at 01:32 AM.

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