{"id":24184,"date":"2026-04-18T09:13:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T15:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=24184"},"modified":"2026-04-18T09:13:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T15:13:19","slug":"the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Previously<\/a>, we’ve looked at the most recent time I’ve seen each of the 30 major league baseball teams play.\u00a0 Three weeks into the 2026 season, I thought it would be worth going into the wayback machine and see when the first time was that I saw each team live and in person, to the best of my knowledge.\u00a0 My records only go back to 1984, so anything before that is as yet unidentified.<\/p>\n

Breaking it down by decade, we have twelve teams I saw originally during the 80s, eleven in the 90s, and the remaining seven came in the 2000s.\u00a0 For franchises that have moved, I have lumped them all together.<\/p>\n

Earliest Game<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Previously, we’ve looked at the most recent time I’ve seen each of the 30 major league baseball teams play.\u00a0 Three weeks into the 2026 season, I thought it would be worth going into the wayback machine and see when the first time was that I saw each team live and in person, to the best […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[123,110,113,119,125,121,57,120,260,122,116,259,256,9687,115,124,114,261,117,50,231,254,112,111,255,258,53,257,126,230,118,49,51],"class_list":["post-24184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-as","tag-angels","tag-astros","tag-blue-jays","tag-braves","tag-brewers","tag-cardinals","tag-cubs","tag-devil-rays","tag-diamondbacks","tag-dodgers","tag-expos","tag-giants","tag-guardians","tag-indians","tag-mariners","tag-marlins","tag-mets","tag-nationals","tag-orioles","tag-padres","tag-phillies","tag-pirates","tag-rangers","tag-rays","tag-red-sox","tag-reds","tag-rockies","tag-royals","tag-tigers","tag-twins","tag-white-sox","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24185,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24184\/revisions\/24185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

Team Name<\/span><\/th>\nYear<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Texas Rangers<\/span><\/td>\n8\/14\/1984<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chicago White Sox<\/span><\/td>\n8\/14\/1984<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Toronto Blue Jays<\/span><\/td>\n8\/30\/1984<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boston Red Sox<\/span><\/td>\n4\/19\/1985<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
San Diego Padres<\/span><\/td>\n7\/8\/1985<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chicago Cubs<\/span><\/td>\n7\/8\/1985<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Baltimore Orioles<\/span><\/td>\n7\/26\/1985<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
New York Mets<\/span><\/td>\n8\/4\/1985<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kansas City Royals<\/span><\/td>\n8\/20\/1985<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cleveland Indians\/Guardians<\/span><\/td>\n7\/16\/1987<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Seattle Mariners<\/span><\/td>\n9\/18\/1987<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
California\/Anaheim\/Los Angeles Angels<\/span><\/td>\n7\/28\/1988<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Detroit Tigers<\/span><\/td>\n4\/20\/1991<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Milwaukee Brewers<\/span><\/td>\n7\/18\/1993<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pittsburgh Pirates<\/span><\/td>\n8\/2\/1993<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/p>\n

Philadelphia Phillies<\/span><\/td>\n

6\/5\/1996<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cincinnati Reds<\/span><\/td>\n7\/4\/1996<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
New York Yankees<\/span><\/td>\n4\/19\/1997<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oakland Athletics<\/span><\/td>\n8\/15\/1997<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Arizona Diamondbacks<\/span><\/td>\n6\/30\/1998<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Florida\/Miami Marlins<\/span><\/td>\n5\/24\/1999<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Houston Astros<\/span><\/td>\n8\/8\/1999<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
San Francisco Giants<\/span><\/td>\n9\/2\/1999<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Minnesota Twins<\/span><\/td>\n5\/12\/2000<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
St. Louis Cardinals<\/span><\/td>\n8\/14\/2000<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tampa Bay Devil Rays\/Rays<\/span><\/td>\n8\/19\/2000<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Atlanta Braves<\/span><\/td>\n7\/15\/2002<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Colorado Rockies<\/span><\/td>\n8\/3\/2002<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Montreal Expos\/Washington Nationals<\/span><\/td>\n4\/8\/2003<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Los Angeles Dodgers<\/span><\/td>\n8\/16\/2003<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n