OnlyBucs

His getting the cheap seats used to annoy the heck out of me, but in retrospect, as a family of five living on a WV teacher's salary, we were lucky to get to go at all.

795459484F5E49090A3B0 wrote: If I remember correctly they opened 3 Rivers after the 1970 All Star Game on a Thursday night. I attended game 4 Sunday afternoon vs the Reds. I was 18 at the time, and thought the stadium  was something with a large scoreboard, artificial turf etc. My late Dad would tell me,Three Rivers was not a baseball field like Forbes Field which he and I went to. I was fortunate enough to attend the opener at PNC Park, and thought to myself that Dad would have said “ now this is a ballpark.”


My dad used to buy the cheapest seats at 3RS on the rare occasions we went to a game, which meant upper deck.  You needed binoculars to see anything from there.   


Yeah, from the upper deck seats it felt like you were a mile away.




And it was amazing how only two outfielders were in view from so many of the seats out there.

I was fortunate enough that the business that my dad owned and worked for as a VP had full season tickets for all the years of 3RS. And they were great seats too.

Sec 23, Row Q, Seats 4-5. They were directly in line with the 1B bag and I got to see Stargell up close a ton of times. I enjoyed games there mainly because we were sitting close to the action. I had partial season tix at PNC until about 2012 and then I just quit going as often. Now those seats were just the opposite of 3RS seats and were up in the peanut gallery in sec 313, top row. Loved those seats.

But I really loved going to FF as a kid. We sat in the reserved seats just past 1B about 20 rows back from the field. We also would go and get game day tickets in the bleachers that were down the LF line and often had a restricted view. Now those were some fun times. It took me a while as a kid to figure out what all the bottles in brown bags were lying on the floor of the bleachers after the game. 60+ years of going to Pirate games in all of their venues. 60+ years of exciting baseball because after all, it was the beloved Pirates playing.