The Tuesday Discussion: I Wish I Saw...
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- Sep 2
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September 2, 2025
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This week we asked out writers the following:
If you could go see any one Yankees game or moment live, what game or moment would it be?
Here are their responses...
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Derek McAdam - Joe Girardi’s RBI triple in Game 6 of the 1996 World Series is one of my favorite moments in Yankee history to watch from time to time. Yankee Stadium finally had something to cheer for and they absolutely blew the roof off. The FOX cameras were shaking as they panned to Atlanta Braves’ manager Bobby Cox in the dugout, so you know it had to have been loud. And not just that, but the Yankees won their first World Series in 18 years just a couple of hours later.
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Ed Botti - One game I wish I had been to was played August 6, 1979. They buried Thurman Munson that afternoon. A highly emotional Yankee Stadium paid their respects to the Captain, and Bobby Murcer won the game.
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Paul Semendinger - I'd like to see Babe Ruth calling his home run in the 1932 World Series. I'm sure he pointed. I want to believe he called the shot. I'd like to see how that all played out.
Lou Gehrig also homered in that game. In fact, the Babe and Lou both his two homers.
It would have been great to be at that game.
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James Vlietstra - My first knee jerk reaction was going to be July 4, 1939. A doubleheader in front of almost 62,000 fans on a Tuesday Independence Day. In between games, the Yankees honored Lou Gehrig, who had recently been diagnosed with ALS. The entire 1927 team was there, starting a tradition that would be known as Old Timers Day, to hear Gehrig give baseball’s most memorable speech referring to himself as the “Luckiest Man “.
However, a random Friday night in front of only 5,000 fans at Shibe Park would definitely have been the game I would have most liked to have seen live.
Including managers, there were 11 Hall of Famers involved in this game. Jimmie Fox, Mickey Cochrane, Earl Combs, and Babe Ruth all hit home runs during the 20-13 Yankees victory.
Two of the rarest feats in baseball occurred during this game:
Lou Gehrig had 6 RBIs while hitting 4 Home Runs, one of only 21 in MLB History.
Tony Lazzeri also had 6 RBIs en route to hitting a Natural Cycle, one of only 15 in MLB history.
This game would have been one of the greatest games ever and I would have loved to have been there to see it.
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Mike Whiteman - I would attend a game in 1927 at Yankee Stadium to see Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and the Murderer's Row Yankees. Perhaps against the A's and their seven Hall of Famers.
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Cary Greene - I would have to go back in time, to the evening of October 18th, 1977 - when Reggie Jackson hit three home runs in a single and decisive, World Series clinching victory over the Dodgers.
Oooooh, I like Paul's Called Shot game -- see what the Babe really did. I probably wouldn't pick one of the games I've seen on TV, such as the Dent HR or Larsen's perfecto; I want to see something I couldn't otherwise see, which also lets out Gehrig's Luckiest Man speech. The '27 Yankees would have a number of great games to see, including their four-game WS sweep of the Pirates. But let me add one more possibility to the list: April 20, 1939, first game of the season (I think there may have been rainouts before that), and the only time Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams all played in the same game (bonus that it was Williams' fi…
The game when Jim Rice ran into the stands to get his cap back....Oh wait, I was there!
an excerpt from:
April 1923: First Day at Yankee Stadium
It was the beginning of an era of bigness—the world's biggest and most expensive baseball park for what shortly became the world's most spectacularly successful baseball team
John Durant
Forty years ago this spring—on Wednesday, April 18, 1923—I sat in the stands at the Yankee Stadium and saw the first game ever played there. It was a great day, this double opening of the Stadium and the season. It was the biggest one-day show baseball had ever staged, including World Series games. The Yankee tradition of bigness and power began, perhaps, right there that afternoon. Everything was big. The game (against the no-account Red Sox) drew the largest crowd in…
Game 163 of the 1978 season at Fenway Park - Reggie Jackson's homerun, Thurman Munson's clutch RBI single and Bucky Dent's greatest moment combine to bring a gutty team back from oblivion (14 gb on 7/19/78 and 6.5 gb on 9/1/78) to win the AL East, and then an AL pennant and a REPEAT World Series Championship.
All time would have to be the Gehrig tribute. An iconic moment not only for baseball but in American folklore.
During my lifetime, would have to be the “Murcer” game after Thurman’s passing. The raw emotion had to be just overwhelming.