Anyone here ever been to an LSU game before the Skip era?

it is way past those people's bedtimes

My wife claims to have been to a game which would have been 82 or 86.

To me, the box was across the street from where we parked to go to football games.

Saw a few games vs. Texas A&M (remember they has a SS named Bonner) and OM (had a great RH (Davis) LH (Calhoun) duo one year) in the mid 70's.

LSU had a pretty good RH pitcher back then named Paul Stefan (?) but don't recall seeing him pitch.

There couldn't have been more than 100 people at the Sat a'noon game against Texas A&M and maybe 500 at the Sat. doubleheader against OM.

Just going off shear brute memory.

And no, I couldn't have imagined our baseball team and success where it is today.

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There couldn't have been more than 100 people at the Sat a'noon game against Texas A&M and maybe 500 at the Sat. doubleheader against OM.

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And we drew over 400,000 this year. Wow!

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it is way past those people's bedtimes

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Not past MY bedtime.

I attended games in the Jim Smith and Jack Lamabe era back when I was a student. Some halfway decent crowds for games that were considered "Big" back then, but nothing like the Bertman years and today.

I just liked sports period and went to just about every sporting event on campus. Particularly enjoyed wrestling when Coach "Schack" was there..........

Yep but I was just worried about getting some ice cream, I had no idea we were not the best team in the country

In the early 80's 400-500 hundred.

1st time I played on Alex Box field was in 1969 or 70 at a baseball camp, but Willie Mays did not show up.

The last time was the day of the Louisiana All Star game not long after the Super Bowl were Cin. would not let Alexander run the ball. I sit between Alexander family and Doug Williams family.

I started law school in 1984. That spring I would take whatever reading assignements I had to the Box and buy a coke and a box of popcorn. I would sit on the first base side and there would be no one close to me. I would watch the game and read my assignments. could not have been more than a couple hundred people in the stands and it looked to be mostly family and girlfriends.

When I left in 1987 there were probably a couple thousand people who would attend the games so I had to do my homework at home.

Been a big fan ever since.

When I was a soph. at LSU in '69, I went to a game at the box. I think we were playing Baylor. I remember that we had about 50 people at the game. Who would have thought back then that LSU baseball is the giant that it is today.

I remember going to a game when Lamabe was coaching and they had Don Drysdale (?) or some legendary pitcher out there.

I went out quite a bit as a kid in the 70's. By quite a bit, I mean four or five games a year.

It was usually a few hundred people and some little leaguers. When they started winning, it was a gradual thing, we would walk out there from our dorms/frat houses as the momentum started picking up.

Albert Belle and Ben McDonald were key to getting people out there in the early Skip years.