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Going to the ballpark as a kid, and getting those ice cream sundaes which came in the mini baseball helmets?

I went to Fenway and Yankee Stadium several times every year when I was ~10 years old. Collected just about every helmet.

:porked:

It's funny the things we remember. I don't recall a lot about each ball game, but getting those little helmets was the best thing in life.

 
We took a family vacation to Chicago to catch a Giants-Cubs game. It was a week or so before the strike date in August 1994 so our daughter was 2 at the time. It was a nice little trip because we met up with some friends who had moved to the Midwest a couple of years previously. We all stayed in a little hotel near Wrigley so were wandering around Lake View the night before the game and stopped off to get a coffee in a little cafe on Halsted. For some reason, our daughter started singing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" which was one of her favorite songs at the time. The staff was so impressed by this little kid singing all the words that they brought her out an ice cream in one of those helmet cups.

The only problem was it was a Dodgers cap :thumbdown:

ETA: She graduated from college last month. Time is ####ing relentless.

 
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I remember a deal at the park where if you bought two, you got a "Reggie Bar" thrown in for free.

Eephus said:
We took a family vacation to Chicago to catch a Giants-Cubs game. It was a week or so before the strike date in August 1994
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The Giants pitched a guy that series who had a last name with thirteen letters in it. Do you remember who that was without looking it up?

 
For some reason I have no recollection of getting those at the ballpark. Makes me wonder if Wrigley / Commiskey even served them.

We had a local place called Zips that served them and loved going there to collect them.

What I do remember, for ice cream at the ballpark, are the Frosty Malts that were served with a wooden 'spoon'.

Mmmmm Frosty Malts

 
Encyclopedia Brown said:
I remember a deal at the park where if you bought two, you got a "Reggie Bar" thrown in for free.

Eephus said:
We took a family vacation to Chicago to catch a Giants-Cubs game. It was a week or so before the strike date in August 1994
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The Giants pitched a guy that series who had a last name with thirteen letters in it. Do you remember who that was without looking it up?
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William Van Landingham aka William Van Launchingpad

 
Tiger Stadium - a quarter for the bus each way and a bleacher ticket for a dollar. Sundays that would buy you a doubleheader that started around 1 and was over before 6.

 
Limp Ditka said:
For some reason I have no recollection of getting those at the ballpark. Makes me wonder if Wrigley / Commiskey even served them.

We had a local place called Zips that served them and loved going there to collect them.

What I do remember, for ice cream at the ballpark, are the Frosty Malts that were served with a wooden 'spoon'.

Mmmmm Frosty Malts
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I'm almost certain they had/have those at both and yes, forsted frosted malts with the wooden paddle are awesome.

 
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I remember when i was like 7-8 Darryl Hamilton threw me a ball when I was in the bleachers at Wrigley. I barely caught it in the palm of my glove. I still have that ball and now my 3 year son plays with it.

 
I remember the mini-helmets RN is talking about. I think an ice cream parlor chain like Baskin-Robbins had them, too. Not sure about that.

I wasn't into those mini-helmets. The souvenir soda cups were a different story. I'd scour the bleachers at Busch II after the game to grab those big plastic cups other fans left behind.

I had a birthday party in the Busch II left field bleachers once. Two hour rain delay broke out. My fellow party guests and I played tag in the empty bleachers in the rain as the other fans waited in the dry concourse. The tag game escalated into "water tag" where you would catch enough rainwater in one of those souvenir cups to douse another player with a cupful of rainwater.

 
Leroy Hoard said:
Tiger Stadium - a quarter for the bus each way and a bleacher ticket for a dollar. Sundays that would buy you a doubleheader that started around 1 and was over before 6.
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After the 1981 strike, Busch II cut bleacher ticket prices to a dollar. My dad would drive me around the neighborhood inviting friends to the ballpark. When the car was full we would hit the freeway and head downtown to the game. If the bleachers were sold out, the top 10 or rows around the upper deck ring were also a buck, and we would buy those and gradually work our way down to closer unsold seats.
 
I remember being at a minor-league game in the late 80s (?) and Chris Chambliss was a base coach on the visiting team. I kept trying to get an autograph, but he gave me the high hat. ridiculous.

 
I went to a Dodgers game in the mid seventies. I was probably 10 or 11 at the time and it was a local park sponsored trip where we took a school bus to and from the stadium. Bought myself a cheap plastic Dodger helmet, which at the time I thought was the coolest thing ever. Was wearing it proudly on the bus ride home when......THWACK!!! A teenager in the seat behind me, sledge hammered my helmet with his fist. Put a big crack in it, and felt like the prongs that the inner casing snapped on to, went through my skull :topcat: . Not my proudest moment.

 
Those mini helmets of ice cream washed down with an RC Cola, now THAT was the bee's knees in 1986

 
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Bruce Dickinson said:
I remember the mini-helmets RN is talking about. I think an ice cream parlor chain like Baskin-Robbins had them, too. Not sure about that.

I wasn't into those mini-helmets. The souvenir soda cups were a different story.
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I drank almost exclusively out of souvenir cups at home from about ages 5 to 12.

 
Raider Nation said:
Going to the ballpark as a kid, and getting those ice cream sundaes which came in the mini baseball helmets?

I went to Fenway and Yankee Stadium several times every year when I was ~10 years old. Collected just about every helmet.

:porked:

It's funny the things we remember. I don't recall a lot about each ball game, but getting those little helmets was the best thing in life.
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Do most ballparks not do that anymore? I got a helmet sundae at Nats Park not too long ago (don't care if I'm in my mid-30s).

 
Northern Voice said:
Bruce Dickinson said:
I remember the mini-helmets RN is talking about. I think an ice cream parlor chain like Baskin-Robbins had them, too. Not sure about that.

I wasn't into those mini-helmets. The souvenir soda cups were a different story.
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I drank almost exclusively out of souvenir cups at home from about ages 5 to 12.
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:thumbup: I was on about the same timeline.In my old bachelor duplex I rented with a couple other guys, we filled the china cabinet with souvenir cups and mugs we all had collected from ballparks and arenas all over the Midwest. At least ten professional teams were represented across multiple sports.

 
Best tasting hotdog I've EVER had?

Mets Game 2, 12 years old in '86

But what I remember most are a number of engrained into my brain experiences from Memorial Stadium in Baltimore.

Starting with the walk from street parking in the surrounding neighborhood (and sometimes when it was busy, from my grandmothers place on Charles St).

The rolling - actually undulating - asphalt in the parking lot when we walked or the few times we parked in the lot.

And, of course, yellow/gold bleacher seats and the plastic cups from which I took "zips" of my dads beer - Busch, I think.

Awesome ####### times.

 
Oh, was never a big fan of the hat. If I was getting Ice Cream, I want the dann cone. But remember them fondly none the less.

 
Anyone remember when Andre Dawson got ejected and threw bats on the field? I remember watching, it was awesome how many cups of beer the Wrigley fans threw on the field. Seemed like thousands when I was watching it. I could only find this clip, that only shows a few seconds of the crowd reaction.

 
shuke said:
Anyone remember when Andre Dawson got ejected and threw bats on the field? I remember watching, it was awesome how many cups of beer the Wrigley fans threw on the field. Seemed like thousands when I was watching it. I could only find

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Oh, wow. I do not remember this. Can't wait to see if any of us can track down more video of it.

The shirt on that field correspondent in the news story you linked is awesome.

 
shuke said:
Anyone remember when Andre Dawson got ejected and threw bats on the field? I remember watching, it was awesome how many cups of beer the Wrigley fans threw on the field. Seemed like thousands when I was watching it. I could only find this clip, that only shows a few seconds of the crowd reaction.
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Least surprising part of this video? Joe West is the home plate umpire...

 
RnR said:
Anyone remember when Andre Dawson got ejected and threw bats on the field? I remember watching, it was awesome how many cups of beer the Wrigley fans threw on the field. Seemed like thousands when I was watching it. I could only find

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He's such a chode. Also Dan Roan is still reporting in Chicago somewhere
 
I remember waiting in line for the chance to sit in the Wrigley bleachers.

Cost $5.....game day sales only

 
I remember my brother Wrigley and I at Soldier Field a long time ago when the Bears beat the Cowboys and Emmitt Smith hurt his neck diving into the endzone. My brother got in a with some guy because he told the guys gf/wife to sit her fat ### down.

 
I was talking about some of the stuff in this thread with my dad last night. And he told me about going to Game 7 of the 1968 World Series:

My old man had an appointment first thing in the morning downtown. When he finished, he drove by the ballpark and saw a small group of people in line. He discovered it was people waiting in line to by bleacher seats to Game 7 of the Series that afternoon, and the tickets hadn't gone on sale yet. He drove around to find a pay phone, called his brother to meet him at the ballpark, parked his car, and got in line.

They paid $2 apiece for bleacher seats for Game 7 of the World Series, didn't plan on going to the game until that morning, and had little trouble buying tickets the day of the game.

He said the best part was getting to go to a World Series Game 7 (a feat he repeated in 1991, but that's another story). The worst part was having a perfect view of Curt Flood breaking the wrong way on Northrup's triple in the 7th that should have been caught to end the inning but instead knocked in what proved to be the winning runs.

 
Annyong said:
I remember my brother Wrigley and I at Soldier Field a long time ago when the Bears beat the Cowboys and Emmitt Smith hurt his neck diving into the endzone. My brother got in a with some

guy because he told the guys gf/wife to sit her fat ### down.
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Wrong. It was a Bears/Bills preseason game.

 
Wrigley said:
Annyong said:
I remember my brother Wrigley and I at Soldier Field a long time ago when the Bears beat the Cowboys and Emmitt Smith hurt his neck diving into the endzone. My brother got in a with some

guy because he told the guys gf/wife to sit her fat ### down.
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Wrong. It was a Bears/Bills preseason game.
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doubtful, but I'm sure you yelled at a fat chick at that one too.

 
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