posted by Laley23
I watch from the 4th inning on every year before the season, but this is a great indiana radio rendition (just Indians at bats) of the greatest comeback in baseball history.
At that time I was a co-op engineer (paid intern) for BFGoodrich in their Aerospace division. They had 81 game season tickets, 4 tickets 3 rows behind 3B dugout.
They used these tickets to entertain customers or vendors. However, if they weren’t being used for business purposes they would send an email that morning asking if anyone wanted them. They took all the emails and you “won” if you hadn’t won tickets in awhile or if you were one of only 2 to take them.
I, being such a huge baseball fan, put my name in every single time they asked. I didn’t care what I had going on that night I would change plans to go to the Indians with those seats for free.
You only got 2 tickets as they always allowed 2 “winners”. So usually my wife or my dad would go with me.
However, on August 1, 2001 I was the only person in the company to put my name in (never happened) so they gave me all 4 tickets. My two cousins and their dad has never been to the new stadium at that point so I took them.
By the 5th inning the stands had cleared out and our 3rd row seats turned into 1st row behind 3B/Indians dugout. My one cousin wanted to leave but the other cousin and my uncle agreed with me that we would stay and just enjoy the night.
And what a night it was.
Getting to watch that game from 1st row behind the Indians dugout was up there with getting to go to a WS game and the HoF with my dad.
I got to go to about 40 games for free over the 2 summers I worked there (2000 and 2001) since I put my name in every single time. But that’s the only one I remember vividly.