If you could go back in time...

That would be it for me too, first thing that popped to mind.

 

seconded

 

Babe Ruth 1932 World Series. Imagine the lucky ones who were close enough to hear the Cub bench and Babe trading insults. Then his last words just before hitting that bomb...........raising one finger and telling the Cub bench... "It only takes one" backed up by one who should know, Cub catcher Gabby Hartnett.

Doesn't matter if he did or did not point, those that were there knew what was taking place, Cub bench calling him fat and washed up, he has the last words and then answers with his bat hitting a ball almost to the intersection of Sheffield and Waveland Avenues.

 

Maybe I'm crazy but I would like to have been able to say I sat through this one:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Longest_game_in_Organized_Baseball_history#Line_and_Box_Score

 

A few come to mind, most of which can be cited with a single name:

• Ray Chapman
• Babe Ruth's called shot
• Jackie Robinson's debut
• Bobby Thomson
• Bill Mazeroski
• Harvey Haddix
• Bucky Dent
• Jack Morris vs. John Smoltz

But for pure curiosity's sake, I'd like to see Joe Williams and Satchel Paige face off.

 

JR was at this game:

http://www.torontoplaques.com/Pages_ABC/Babe_Ruth_at_Hanlans_Point.html

 

Poor Dallas Williams must still be mumbling to himself.

And there's this funny story out there about one of the pitchers arrived home at 5 a.m. or so to find his wife angry that he stayed out all night and accused him of cheating on her. She wouldn't believe him that the game wasn't stopped until 4 a.m.

 

Hell, I might go back to the 1985 World Series and watch Game 6 and 7 again.

Go Royals!

 

1969 World Series, Game 5.

 

October 1, 1932 - Ruth's called shot
September 28, 1955 - Jackie steals? home
October 18, 1977 - Reggie's 3 HRs

 

http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/boxscore?gameId=270628118

Was at this game, but I'd love to relive it in person.

Funny/sad story: My sister and I each bought tickets to the last three games of that Rockies series because we wanted to see the hit. But the day of, I get a weird gut feeling and buy two tickets (in separate sections) for the first game that night. Why? Because "If he went off in his first game back and got to 3,000 I'd never be able to live it down." My sister passed, so a friend of mine from high school went with me.

That game had it all: The 3000th hit of my favorite player, a (starting) pitchers duel, back-and-forth in the late innings and, oh yes, a walk-off grand slam by Carlos Lee. Winning that game made Carlos Lee a never truly hateable commodity to me, even in the dying years of that contract.

 

I'll go a different way...the best game I actually attended. 15-year-old Big Circus caught this one on a high-school field trip. Chris Hoiles won the game with a walk-off grand slam. SI named it the best game of the first half of the season.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BAL/BAL199605170.shtml