The Tuesday Discussion: I Wish I Was There...

October 28, 2025

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This week we asked our writers to respond to the following:

If you could go back and see any one baseball game live, which game would it be?  Would you prefer to see that game in the stadium, at restaurant or bar, or at home?

Here are their replies...

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Ethan Semendinger - I watched my hero (Hideki Matsui) hit a walk-off homer at Yankee Stadium with my dad and grandparents. I'm good. I saw the big moment.

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Derek McAdam - The first game that comes to mind for me would be the Chicago Cubs breaking their 108-year World Series victory drought in 2016 against Cleveland. Being in the stands and witnessing such history would be an incredible feat. An honorable mention would be David Cone’s perfect game in 1999. It was the last Yankees’ game my parents were in person for at Yankee Stadium and my mom was five months pregnant with me. Although I technically was there, it would’ve been neat to see it in person. 

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Tim Kabel - If I could go back to see any game in person, it would be August 6, 1979. That’s the game when the Yankees came back after Thurman Munson‘s funeral and played the Baltimore Orioles Bobby Murcer single-handedly won the game for his best friend in a dramatic fashion. 

I would want to be at the stadium with my father because we never actually went to a game together. He worked all the time and could never get any time off. Ideally, we would be sitting in the broadcast booth next to Howard Cosell, but since that would be unlikely, nice field level  box seats would be perfect. 

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Lincoln Mitchell - This is a fun, but difficult question. I am not going to try to cheat and list more than one game, but will answer the question as written. The academic in me would like to go back and see a great game from the distance past-maybe the Fred Merkle game, the called shot game or Don Larsen’s perfect game, but I am answering with my heart on this one.  would like to go back in time and be my ten-year-old self, but instead of being in school on the west coast in the fall of 1978, I would like to be at Fenway Park in person as for what we now refer to as the Bucky Dent game. I would be decked out in Yankees gear and watching the final game of the greatest pennant race of the four division era. My second choice would be the Bobby Thomson game in 1951.

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Paul Semendinger - I'll go back and watch the Babe point, because he did, and then hit a homer in Chicago in 1932...