Going to his first game?

If it is an away game for the Angels and you are there for the first pitch you will always know for certain, just by looking up the box score, who the first batter he ever saw live was. Just passing that down to your son is a touchstone he can carry forward, and what kid doesn’t need certainty these days.

you can’t go wrong, just bring him to the park.

hope to see you at game this yr, unfortunately halos won’t be in town for a few months.

…infants are a delicacy to many Oakland fans. When we clinch, you’ll be safer in the crowd of 4,000.

We watched the Angels beat the Red Sox 5-0 in game one of the 2009 ALDS. Very memorable.

  Baseball is a beautiful sport, but infants a delicate. Congadulations on yours…

I’d just eat the cyanide pill and call it a day.

Is your son’s name really Vlad? Because your screen name makes it sound that way. If it is, that is truly hardcore!

…He is named Vladimir Philip Margetich. Sorry but he is not named after the great Angels hitter Guerrero. I named him after my grandfather, a true American WWII hero. We always joke that Guerrero was named after my Croatian grandfather. My Great-great-grandfather sailed the Caribbean. How else would a Dominican get a name like that?

to her first game when she was four months old back in 2006…

I guess I have a different take on this, but I want to make it clear that I mean no disrespect whatsoever. This isn’t really about his first game, it’s about your first game with him. The game will mean more to the both of you if he is actually able to remember it. Sure, you can say So and So was the first batter he ever saw, but was he really? The kid will be more fascinated by the lady’s hair in front of you or your shirt pattern.

Furthermore, I just feel that ball games aren’t for infants. Every time I see one at a game, or go to one with somebody who has brought theirs, it just makes me nervous. Is that weird? I can only envision line drives off of baby craniums. It’s like, do you really want to take the chance of arriving with a normal functioning child, to leaving with one destined to tend the rabbits?

Take him during April. He seems to be a good luck charm. Also, since you live in the Bay Area, it might be pretty awesome to take your son on a trip down south to see a home game once he’s old enough to remember it. It could really be an amazing father and son experience to take a weekend roadtrip or something to the Big A. Once again, congratulations man.

was in spring, 2005 at Safeco. Angels won 5-2, with John Lackey (grrrr) getting the win, and Scot Shields getting the save (awesome!). Steve Finley hit a home run, and yes, I was there…I can verify that this is true!

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SEA/SEA200505030.shtml

We finally made it to a game in Anaheim in summer 2006, but the Angels lost to the Royals.

Congrats on your bouncing baby boy; get him to a game ASAP. Oakland, SF, minor leagues, whatever.

We took my daughter starting at the end of 2006 (she was born in early september 2006) and my son was going when he was a month old (Born early June 2008). We’d pick day games and sit in the shade. Now they are a little older and LOVE going to baseball games. My daughter asked me yesterday when we could go to an angels game and my son drags his angels hat everywhere.

It just so happened to be GA’s 10 RBI night on on Aug. 21 2007 versus the Yankees. She’s now nearly three and been to over 25 games. And now we’re packing for Spring Traning!

My little girl to as many baseball games as I could. Her first game she was probably 8 months, but that’s because she was born in the middle of the season, Aug. 19th, 2004.

she did pretty well till about the 4th inning……….then we spent the rest of game walking around the stadium watching the game on the various TV’s and stopping to look out in the field occasionally……….So I would advise you to take a stroller……….where ever you go. Just in case.

And congrats!

in April 1986. 24 years later he is as fanatical as they come.

i have no intention of trekking my kid up to see the angels play in minnesota or chicago until he’s cut his teeth on local ball. college summer league next year when he’s 3, maybe some cedar rapids games after that, before taking him to a real major league game.

My daughter was 3 months for her first game. It was Angels VS Yankees at Angels. GA’S 13 RBI night!!! She was good. Expect a lot of sleeping through the game though! :) Take him in April!! Just make sure to bring lots of sun screen and sit in the shade, at least until he is bigger!! My daughter is now 3 and has been to 30 MLB games, we live in Bakersfield.