The Elder Barry's First Game

The first baseball game I ever attended was with my dad at Seals Stadium to see my heroes the San Francisco Seals. I was six or seven years old so I remember nothing about the game itself; my only recollection is the green grass. I remember standing there transfixed by the color.

Many years later I read an essay by George Will who related nearly the same story. He explained by saying that until then the only games he'd ever seen were on Television and in those days the games were shown in black and white ... For both he and I the thing that stood out about that first game was the color, and the vividness of that green grass will be forever etched in my memory ...