"Missed it by THAT much"

[xplainer]

Not a big time ticket collector, but I do have a full ticket from what was supposed to be the first game at Miller Park, Opening Day 2000. Then the terrible accident happened.
I also have one from the actual first game, Opening Day a year later.

I also have a ticket from the first game played at Turner Field. An exhibition against the Yankees, March 1997.

[YankeeFan]

This is not as near a miss as the others, but I wanted to include this one.

I showed the program for "Mickey Mantle's last game" at Fenway Park, which was actually the Yankees last game of 1968, but Mantle did not play. In fact, according to "The Last Boy", he wasn't even in the ball park that day.

So it is ironic that this faux "Ted Williams last game" item would be for Boston's last game of the 1960 season at Yankee Stadium. A game in which Williams did not play, and was not even at the stadium.




I happen to like Opening Day and last game of the year tickets. Of course, I know I would not have been able to buy this for a few dollars if it really was Williams' last game.

[Gary Dunaier]

I have a ticket from what was scheduled to be the first night game at the present Yankee Stadium (the building without a soul which was built on parkland stolen from the neighborhood).



Unfortunately, the game was not played because of weather... but that makes this a ticket to the first game to be rained out at the facility.