Opening Day

It's opening day at Fenway Park which means it really should start to feel like spring soon. I've never gone to an opening day, but I remember boys getting dismissed from school, starting in grammar school, to attend.

I did attend the longest game ever played at Fenyway, on September 3, 1981. The Red Sox played the Mariners and the game went 19 innings and was to-be-continued the next day. We didn't go the next day to see that last inning, but I was still thrilled that I had been at a historical game.

This was when Rich Gedman, Carl Yastrzemski , Jim Rice, and all of those guys were playing. My favorite was Carleton Fisk, but I guess he left before that game. I still have a baseball somewhere that Bob Stanley signed for me and my little autograph book with other player's signatures.

I used to go to games with my dad and other guys and their kids from the Eagles. We'd ride a bus in town and I'd wear a Red Sox hat and my baseball glove (apparently I thought I'd catch a ball, I never did) and eat a few Fenway Franks. Fun things when you're 8.