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This ticket stub doesn’t provide a whole lot of information on its own. It was clearly a Blue Jays game, obviously the game was played during the season of ’84 and certainly the price of a MLB game several decades ago was significantly cheaper than they are nowadays (a quick search showed tickets for upcoming games this season starting at around $30).
From day one I’ve kept my ticket stubs in a photo album (I’m currently up to album number six), and next to each stub I’ve written info about the event; the venue, who opened the show, who I went with, that sort of thing. For some reason the info next to this particular ticket stub is lacking in both depth and accuracy. I wrote neither the date nor the name of the opposing team, however I did note that it was the home opener and the final score had the Jays losing 16-3.
Just the tiniest bit of online research shows that both of those pieces of information are faulty. Based on the tickets that come before and after this one in the album it couldn’t have been the home opener, and there was not a single game in the ’84 season that ended with a score of 16-3. There was a home game against the Yankees on June 3rd, 1984 that ended with New York winning 15-2 so that’s my best guess.
The facts I do remember: this was the first professional sporting event that I ever attended; I was in the cheap, cheap, cheap seats – the stands over left field; the stadium did not sell beer (Exhibition Stadium was the last venue in MLB to offer beer to patrons – imagine baseball without beer!), a fact that meant nothing to me as I was very underage at the time and besides I attended the game with my friend’s church youth group; and finally, on our way to the game we found ourselves stuck in traffic behind a Lamborghini on the Gardiner Expressway.
It was the first time I had ever seen a Lamborghini in real life (and in the wild no less!) and the experience was probably the biggest takeaway of the day for me.
(This ticket stub is so ingrained in my ticket album that it refused to properly detach for the photo session and seems to be quite permanently stuck in place.)
Todd Man Out 