My top five Cleveland Indians memories

I’ve been to dozens of Tribe games over the years. I may not remember who won each game, but I recall the events that took place during them! In no particular order, here are my Top Five:

 

1) April 2006. I went with my husband (Josh) and my parents. It was Josh’s first Indians game (he grew up in California). Not only did we have great seats on the first-base side of the lower deck, but Josh got to shake Slider’s hand mid-game. It was all Josh could talk about for weeks afterwards. You’d think he were 12 instead of thirty-something. And I’m still jealous.

 

2) June 2000. I was at a Tribe game with a friend of mine from high school and plethora of other people, including my little sister. We sat in the bleachers. Mid-way through the first inning, one of the people in front of us turned around — it was the assistant principal of the high school that we had graduated from a few years before. He recognized our voices as we were cheering. Small world!

 

3) April 1997. Several of my high school pals and I went to an Indians game wearing homemade feathered headbands and bearing a banner that declared, “We’ll do anything to be on TV.” (I was 18. Give me a break.) We didn’t end up on TV, but that might’ve been because we were seated in the upper right-field corner.

 

4) Sometime in 1985. I don’t remember the exact month, but I was six years old when I went to my first Cleveland Indians game with my mom and one of my aunts at the old Cleveland Stadium. All that I really recall is that I was more interested in the gift shop than the game, and I went home with an inflatable baseball bat that was taller than I was. I think I might’ve also gotten a baseball-shaped pen, too.

 

5) Sometime in 1998. My dad and I went to a game and sat in the mezzanine. The Indians were playing the Toronto Bluejays and a Canadian was sitting a few rows back (he stood and proudly sang along to the Canadian National Anthem.) The poor guy was lightly mocked throughout the game for his loyalty, but nothing overtly-mean was said. He teased the Tribe fans in the vicinity right back, especially when the Bluejays were ahead!