Not absolutely sure of the above assertion, but the two things I remembered about the first MLB game I attended were that Norm Cash homered and a 36-year-old rookie named Hank Izquierdo was catching for the visiting Twins. It was his only season with them, and with the help of Baseball Reference, I found that he played only 3 games in Tiger Stadium, with two of them the nightcaps of doubleheaders. The single game was on Thursday,
August 24, and Norm Cash did homer that day.
Yeah, I did the math, I know how long ago that was... I can also sing commercial jingles from that era as though I saw them yesterday. (Since I've watched a number of them on YouTube, it's entirely possible that I did.) And I've used Izquierdo sometime during the past year in
Immaculate Grid.
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