Favorite 'ballpark giveaway' at one time they even gave out baseball bats!

Journeyman · May 19, 2003

I`ll never forget some of these giveaways down at Baltimore`s Memorial

Stadium..

THIS PARTICULAR NIGHT WAS TEXACO BALL NIGHT

It was mid September 1989 a doubleheader against Boston...The Orioles

and Red Sox were battling for the AL East lead , plenty of Boston fans at the old ballyard

The Orioles lost the first game, a late rally falling just short... Between games the group of friends I was with , diehard O`s fans

( this was back in the day when it still mattered ) we started trash talking as we sat pissed dropping a game off our sinking AL EAST LEAD...

I remember taunting the Boston fans who were peppered all around us ...These Boston fans are some obnoxious people too. So we started talking trash mentioning names like Buckner, Dent, Stanley, Mookie

Its easy to stick it in a Red Sox fans ear

, so much material to work with given their pathetic history of winning the World Series...It got a little heated and at that point my friend grabs this trash talking Beantowner`s

free BASEBALL from underneath his seat

,fires it out into RightField

Next thing we know one by one baseballs are raining from the upper deck...LMAO

by the time it was over 1000`s of FREE TEXACO BASEBALL`S were all along the outfield

It was a very funny site...Everytime it seemed over another 30-40 would rain down, i`m pretty sure that was the last ball-night in Baltimore

Helmet night was my favorite, only problem was they`d stick that damn sponsor name on it

bigd0gg · May 19, 2003

Limited Edition Bobbleheads.

PO69 · May 20, 2003

I recieved a few of those bats from teh 70's and early 80's. Bat night was cool, but after the first few years, they changed the distribution policy. They gave them out as you LEFT THE PARK! Likewise with baseball night.

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