I would see the 1975 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and my Cincinatti Reds. All 7 games including Game 6, which as you know, was the greatest game ever played!
Do they have to be MLB games? Cause I can think of a few minor league games I’d love to have seen:
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[li]Ron Necciai’s 27K no-hitter for the Pirates’ Bristol farm club in the Class D Appalachian League, aginst the Welsh Miners, May 13, 1952. It wasn’t a fluke, either. He’d already put up 19K and 20K in his previous two appearances, and he struck out 24 in his next game. He also struck out 11 straight in a relief appearance. Before being moved up to Class B Burlington, Necciai went 4-0, with 109K in 42 IP, allowing only 10 hits, with a 0.42 ERA. At Burlington, on a last place ball club he went 7-9, led the league with 172K, posting a 1.57 ERA. He was called up to Pittsburgh before the end of the 1952 season, where he went 1-6 for an abysmally bad Pirates club. In January 1953 he was drafted and missed all of spring training in military service before receiving a medical discharge (severe ulcers). He tried to rush himself back in to shape to rejoin the Pirates and tore his rotator cuff, a career-ending injury in those days. It ended his.[/li][li]Tyrone Horne homers for the cycle – that is, he hit solo, 2-run, 3-run, and grand slam homers – in a single game on June 27, 1998, playing for the Arkansas Travelers in the Double-A Texas League at San Antonio (he struck out in his final at-bat of the game). Despite leading the league in homers with 37, Horne never made it to the majors, spending the last couple of years in the independent Atlantic and Texas-Louisiana Leagues.[/li][li]Another Texas League classic: June 15, 1902. Corsicana squeaks by Texarkana, 51-3. That’s right, 51-3. Corsicana catcher Nig Clarke hit eight homers, half of Corsicana’s total for the day. The game was actually played in Ennis, Texas, since blue laws prohibited Sunday games in Corsicana, and the smaller ballpark contributed to the slaughter, as did the decision by Texarkana player/owner C.B. DeWitt to pitch the entire game – yep, he stayed out there and gave up all 51 runs himself (though 26 of them were unearned). Time of the game: two hours and ten minutes.[/li][li]I love Texas League baseball. Dallas/Fort Worth’s Tom Walker pitched a 15-inning no-hitter on August 4, 1971. According to the Texas League web site, DFW manager Cal Ripken Sr. had planned to lift Walker if DFW hadn’t scored in the bottom of the 15th.[/li][li]Yet another Texas League item: John Young’s walk-off homer over the sixty-foot high right-field screen at Ray Winder Field to win the 1979 Texas League Championship for the Arkansas Travelers. Don’t remember the date, and since I lived outside the range of the Travs’ radio broadcasts, I had to read about it in the late, great Arkansas Gazette the next day. I’ve always regretted not seeing it. [/li][li]Don’t know the date, but it would have been in the early 1950s. Harmon Killebrew alledgedly hit a home run out of Engel Stadium in Chattanooga to straightaway center field. The center field fence at Engel is 475 feet away from home plate and is about 20 feet high. [/li][/ul]
I suppose I should list some MLB games as well:
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[li]September 29, 1954. Game 1 of the Giants-Indians World Series. The Catch.[/li][li]Game 6 of the 1991 World Series, Twins-Braves (October 23, IIRC). The game Kirby Puckett won with an 11th inning HR off Charlie Leibrandt. Still the best World Series of my adult life, even if the Braves did lose.[/li][li]Ozzie Smith’s game-winning home run in Game 5 of the 1985 NLCS against the Dodgers. The only left-handed HR of his career to that point.[/li][li]Denny McClain’s 30th win, 1968. It took ninth-inning single by Willie Horton just over a drawn-in Oakland infield to score Mickey Stanley and get the win for McClain.[/li][li]Likewise, Bob Gibson’s 17K performance in Game 1 of the 1968 World Series against Detroit. (Oddly, though I was only four years old in 1968, I did see both Bob Gibson and Denny McClain pitch in person – Gibson in a 1971 game in the Astrodome – my first and only MLB game until 1987 – and McClain in 1973 during one of his comeback attempts, pitching for Shreveport against Arkansas at Ray Winder Field. McClain lasted only 2/3 of an inning and gave up five or six runs. His comeback attempt didn’t succeed.)[/li][li]Just for grins, Rafael Belliard’s second career home run, ten years after the first, off the Mets’ Brian Bohannon on September 26, 1997. [/li][li]Oh, what the hell. Game 7 of the 1992 NLCS, Pittsburgh at Atlanta. I was on an airplane. Two of 'em, in fact. Had time to catch the middle innings in one of the concourse bars in DFW between flights. Had to board around the beginning of the eighth inning. The Delta flight crew piped the radio broadcast into the cabin (it was a DFW-ATL flight), right up until the flight was cleared to take off. They had to turn it off just as Cabrera came to the plate. By the time we were in the air and they turned it back on, it was over – and it was a while before any of us figured out what had happened. So yeah, I’d love to go back and really see it.[/li][/ul]
That’s thirteen, it’s late – I’ll think some more and come up with two more tomorrow.
1946 WS, game 7
Did Pesky hold the ball? I don’t really know, but there’s no better way to see it than live.
Red Sox/Yankees, May 28, 2000
0-0, Pedro vs. Roger, at the stadium. Trot Nixon wins it in the 9th with a 2 run shot to the short porch in right. The greatest regular season game I’ve ever seen, probably one of the best ever, period.
Red Sox/Angels, August 18th, 1967
My dad was at this one. Tony C. 
1918 WS, game 6
There’s not much to say about this, beyond the obvious.
Dodgers vs. ?, September 20, 1961
The last game at the LA Coliseum. I’ve always loved that park for no good reason.
August 7, 1988, Wrigley Field
I’m not sure if there was a game that day. But it was the day before one of the greatest parks in history lost it’s virginity.
Wrigley Field, Winter, 1958-59
No, not that Wrigley. And I know that exhibitions aren’t allowed. But as the home of one of the greatest sports TV shows in history, I feel I must be there for the taping.
Yankees vs Browns, Sept. 21, 1915
217 people showed up at the Polo Grounds that day. It would have been an interesting thing to see. (I’m running out of games that haven’t been mentioned, if you can’t tell)
If I had the chance to go really hog wild with this, I would likely choose to spend a season on the road with a Negro League team (probably the KC Monarchs.) I may not be the best writer in the world, but I’d love to be able to chronicle the stories, games, players, and events. I think that would be a fascinating read.
I can’t believe it,l but I think I’m the first person to mention the only two games in major league history with the perfect ending; a home run to win the World Series.
Game 7, 1960: Mazeroski homers off Ralph Terry to win the game 10-9.
Game 6, 1993: Joe Carter homers off Mitch Williams to win 8-6.
No game could be more dramatic than these two.
Any game played on a grass field, with a sunny, blue sky overhead, and a cold beer and a hot dog in my hand is good enough for me.
And as I predicted, my beloved Orioles are manning the cellar of the AL East. It is enough to make you swear off Natty Bo forever.
What a great topic!
For games that haven’t been mentioned yet,
I’d like to go back before the turn of 19th century, and see the original Baltimore Orioles, the team with Wee Willie Keeler in the OF and John McGraw at 3b, play a Temple Cup game.
Then I’d go to a May, 1970 Sunday afternoon “Helmet-day” game in Cleveland Stadium between the Indians and the Twins, to relive the first MLB game I went to as a kid.
I’d go to see the Pawtucket vs. Rochester game in 1981 that was the longest game in professional history and that Wade Boggs and Cal Ripken Jr. both played in.
I’d go see Satchel Paige pitch for the Cleveland Indians in 1948 when the Indians last won the World Series.
This has already been mentioned, but I’d go see game 7 of the 1992 NLCS. I was watching that at home but inexplicably I fell asleep in the 7th inning and slept through the great finish.
I’d go to see Cleveland beat Brooklyn in the 1920 World Series.
I’d go to the 1919 World Series to see if I could tell whether Joe Jackson was trying to throw the Series or not.
I’d just like to give kudos to PatrickM and rackensack for the idea of attending minor league games. While I may or may not choose those particular ones, I would like to go back and see some of the guys that are sure fire HOFers playing when they were still developing their skills.
Thanks. It’s also worth remembering that up until about the mid-1950s, there were a lot of minor league players who were as good or better than a lot of the guys in the majors. With only 400 roster slots among the 16 big league clubs, there were a lot of guys in the minors who just never happened to get seen by the right people at the right time, or who got a chance at the major league level and just happened to have the worst slump of their career at exactly that time, causing them to get sent back down for good. Also, a lot of minor league clubs weren’t even affiliated with big league teams, even as late as the 1950s, and independent teams loved to find a really good ballplayer who was tired of kicking around all over the country and wanted to settle down, open a gas station or sporting goods store, and play for the local team (see Joe Bauman) . Those are the guys I’d love to have seen – the Smead Jolleys, Buzz Arletts, Jigger Statzs, Ox Eckhardts, and so forth.
I was fortunate enough to see a lot of future big league stars playing for the Arkansas Travelers in the 1970s, from Al Hrabosky, Keith Hernandez, and Garry Templeton through Ken Oberkfell and Tommy Herr up to Andy Van Slyke, not to mention a host of opposing players.
I’m not going to make any selections, because the foregoing picks are so awesome. However, I will say that if any of you wants to bring me along in the time machine for any of the aforementioned games, I’ll happily pay for your beers.
I would love to see the second of Johnny Vander-Meer’s consecutive no hit games.
I want to see any Brooklyn Dodgers game in Brooklyn - my mother was a HUGE fan. In fact, she stopped following baseball after the Bums moved to L.A.
I want to go back to 1970-71, to see the Orioles play again. I would appreciate them much more now than I did as a kid. You’ll never see 4 20 game winners on one pitching staff again, as the O’s had in 1971.
There was a game that the O’s played against Toronto in 1983, in the midst of a close race. Because of various player switches, shortstop Len Sakata was forced to catch. Toronto got three runners to first base in the 10th inning, and all 3 were picked off. The O’s won the game.
I’m going off the top of my head, so I don’t know all the dates, but here are the games:
Don Larson’s Perfect Game
An average at best pitcher who had a bad game his first start in the series pitches the greatest game in series history.
Lou Gehrig Day
Just to be there for that speach, and the emotion of the day.
Joe Carter’s Walk off Home Run
I always liked Carter, and was happy to see him be the hero.
Mark McGuire’s 62nd Homer
I grew up thinking the home run record belonged to the Yankees, and would always be with the Yankees. But McGuire seemed to have so much fun and love for the game, it was OK to see the record fall to him.
Dave Righetti’s No Hitter
This was one of the first times my parents let me stay alone while they went out, so I watch the game alone, on the 4th of July. I’d love to share it with others.
Opening of Yankee Stadium
I love The Stadium, and just think it would be cool to be there for the opening game.
1978 AL East Divisional Playoff
To see the completion of one of the greatest comebacks of all time.
Ted Williams’ Final Game
While I’m a Yankee fan, it must have been something to see the Splinter go out the way he did.
Indeed. They filmed that movie “61*” there, as a matter of fact. (I thought about going out when they had a call for extras – that, of course, was when I still lived in Michigan – but decided not to.)
I’ve been to one game there – a rather unremarkable game against the Milwaukee Brewers. IIRC, the Tigers won. 
And I’m going to my first game at Wrigley Field next week (which, coincidentally, is also against Milwaukee. Weird, that.)
As far as time-travelling for the purposes of baseball, I think it’d be really cool to go back and see those really old games you can’t even see on the Classic Sports Network 
– but like Cervaise, I’d happily go to see any of these.
BTW, nobody’s mentioned Disco Demolition Night yet? …Joking, joking.
Add one more to my list…
Tonight’s Royals vs. Tigers game, the first Royals game in four years without that incompetent Tony Muser as in the dugout. Hooray! Ding-dong, the witch is dead!
Chaim Mattis Keller
Yeah, it is never good to be the guy that everybody else looks at and says “If I performed like that I would have been fired years ago.”
Of course, the ever disappointing Allard Baird still holds the reigns in the organization, so I fully expect to see more idiotic contracts, poor decisions, and the continuing ability to come to a fork in the road and decide to turn around and go backwards.
Katisha - I mentioned it.
Chaim Mattis Keller
Mullinator:
One thing at a time. Let’s at least see if the new manager makes fewer ill-informed running decisions (I can’t count how many times I’ve heard the Royals lose a baserunner and gain an out trying to stretch a double into a triple or come home from second base - often when there are no outs in the inning!) and has a better sense of how to use a bullpen.
Baird is no John Scheurholz, but Muser was a whole new category of screw-up. I was beginning to think that Tony Muser had pictures of David Glass having sex with a goat or something.
Go Royals!
Chaim Mattis Keller
One would think Muser’s incompetence long passed the point of blackmail via photographed goat related debauchery. There aren’t a whole lot of situations that I could look at someone involved in professional athletics and feel confident in saying I coulda done better, but in this situation I coulda done better.
As for Muser, my favorite quote of his from this firing is “I did the best I could possibly do, and life goes on.”
Well, if this is the best he could do it certainly serves as a ringing endorsement to enter the managerial retreads circuit while looking for another job.
October 20, 1993 World Series. Toronto 15 Philadelphia 14. The game that ruined Mitch Williams career as the Blue Jays came back from a 14-9 deficit in the seventh inning capped by Devon Whites two run scoring triple. This set up the Game Sixth confrontation between Joe Carter and Mitch Williams.
Nitpick:
It was April 16th. Not the 18th.
As for mine:
May 15, 1981 - For one glorious night, Cleveland Baseball (and Lenny Barker) were perfect.
The afore-mentioned April 16, 1940
Ted Williams’ last game.
The game in the 1920 World Series in which Bill Wambsganss made the only unassisted triple play ever turned in WS history (no, I don’t know offhand which game it was - I’m posting from memory, here.)
November 4, 2001 - yes, I know it wasn’t that long ago - but it was something in this town, and I would have loved to have been there.
Game 4 of the 1997 AL Division Series. Mariano Rivera’s other blown postseason save (this one to Sandy Alomar of the Cleveland Indians).
The game Rube Waddell left in order to go chase a fire engine.
Almost any game played by the following:
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[li]Christy Mathewson[/li][li]Ty Cobb[/li][li]Cy Young (preferably in an Indians uniform, but for any other team would be fine, too)[/li][li]Babe Ruth (one as pitcher, one as hitter)[/li][li]Lou Boudreau[/ul][/li]BTW - I went to a game at Tiger Stadium two years before Comerica opened. Every time a foul ball hit the roof (which was all the time), we got showered with little paint chips. Not so good.