The first baseball game was played on April 15, 1954, when the Baltimore Orioles beat the Chicago White Sox. This game was the second game of the new season. The city threw a parade that went 56 blocks. The mayor at that time Thomas D' Alesandro Jr. made opening day a half-day holiday. The Vice President Richard Nixon threw out the first pitch. The cost of the stadium was $6,500,000. The cost of a bleacher seat was 75 cents and 50 cents for kids 12 and under, the box seats were $3.
My first baseball game came when I was in middle school and my school sold Orioles Dugout tickets. You could get 10 individual tickets to 10 Orioles games for $10. My friends and I brought tickets every year while in middle school. We would go to the games and sit in what looked like golden colored bleacher seats to me. We could stomp on the bleachers, bang on the back of the seats and yell "EDDIE, EDDIE, EDDIE" at the top of our lungs. We witness the "Iron Man" Cal Ripken play along side on some other great players like Dempsey, Singleton, and one of the Greatest Managers in baseball's history Earl Weaver. The most memoriable time I had was when my dad surprised me with tickets to a game for my birthday. That was the first time I got to go to a baseball game with my dad, and the best part about it was that it was a school night in early September.My dad and I stayed the whole game, which in my mind lasted all night.  I enjoyed being at the staduim so much that when I was old enough I applied for a job there working the concession stands, but transfer to a different department because I couldn't actually see the games. I worked three seasons at the staduim and got zero autographs.