StL Dan wrote:I'm sure you've printed this page for your personal archives. If not, do so!
Oh yeah. I sent copies to my folks, my Mom got a kick out of it. Of course she didn't remember any of the details like I did, but then again I was an unusual child with an unusual obsession with baseball and the Cardinals. Trap door memory for the most part, because those trips were literally the highlights of the year for me.
Back then, you ordered tickets the old fashioned way - through the mail. By the time the game day came around the tickets looked like they had been through a washing machine or something. Every day I would study them, hold them, look up the seats on the seating chart. You know how your Christmas presents looked tattered by Christmas morning from shaking them? I did that with the tickets.
jim wrote:Back then, you ordered tickets the old fashioned way - through the mail. By the time the game day came around the tickets looked like they had been through a washing machine or something. Every day I would study them, hold them, look up the seats on the seating chart. You know how your Christmas presents looked tattered by Christmas morning from shaking them? I did that with the tickets.
jim wrote:Back then, you ordered tickets the old fashioned way - through the mail. By the time the game day came around the tickets looked like they had been through a washing machine or something. Every day I would study them, hold them, look up the seats on the seating chart. You know how your Christmas presents looked tattered by Christmas morning from shaking them? I did that with the tickets.
Very unusual child I was.
I did the exact same thing.
That doesn't surprise me. You too were a strange child too I'm guessing, at least when it came to baseball.
I've already admitted my strange behaviour by redrawing the seating chart by hand on blank paper - I did the same with tickets. God only knows what I planned to do with them, maybe I was trying to make fakes good enough to get in to a free game or something. The tickets were so cool back then, nothing like what they produce today.
RC21 wrote:That '89 season? I made a calendar of each month of the season and wrote down the pitching matchups and winning and losing pitchers for each game.
Excellent!
I did the calendars as well, back in the early 70's you just didn't find pocket schedules laying around at the gas stations. i pretty much had to make my own. I recorded the score, but you've got me on the pitching matchups.
Somewhere at my parent's house, there's drawer full of ticket stubs from Busch II around the early 90's. My buddy and I would get into the stadium on cheap seats and then use the massive amount of box seat ticket stubs we'd acquired to try and sneak down to the boxes. If an usher guarding the stairs down to the boxes figured out that we were flashing week old ticket stubs, we'd just reach into our bags and pull out another set to try out on the next usher. We always made it down.
Tambourine Man wrote:Somewhere at my parent's house, there's drawer full of ticket stubs from Busch II around the early 90's. My buddy and I would get into the stadium on cheap seats and then use the massive amount of box seat ticket stubs we'd acquired to try and sneak down to the boxes. If an usher guarding the stairs down to the boxes figured out that we were flashing week old ticket stubs, we'd just reach into our bags and pull out another set to try out on the next usher. We always made it down.
/Believes Jim and RC need counseling.
The fellas I ran with back in HS used to know an usher at Busch II, we'd get in with GA and then he'd let us in on unused Field Box seats. That worked back in the 70s and early 80s before Whitey ruined everything by making the Cardinals a team everybody wanted to pay to see.
Tambourine Man wrote:Somewhere at my parent's house, there's drawer full of ticket stubs from Busch II around the early 90's. My buddy and I would get into the stadium on cheap seats and then use the massive amount of box seat ticket stubs we'd acquired to try and sneak down to the boxes. If an usher guarding the stairs down to the boxes figured out that we were flashing week old ticket stubs, we'd just reach into our bags and pull out another set to try out on the next usher. We always made it down.
/Believes Jim and RC need counseling.
That is smart. They really patrolled that field box area, didn't they? The secret service should have taken some tips from those people guarding that area.
fanforever wrote:The 1973 and 1974 teams broke my heart. Came so close both years
Damn you Steve Swisher!
The 73 team really made a run after a horrible start. I replayed the 1973 season using Diamond Mind this past winter. The Pirates were actually the team to beat that year, the Mets just got incredibly lucky. The Cardinals didn't have much though past Torre/Simmons and Brock. Sizemore was pretty decent, and Bernie Carbo had a nice year. But if you thought Aaron Miles/David Eckstein were weak you should have seen Mike Tyson and Mick Kelleher!
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