True. Growing up my dad would get tickets for about 3-4 games every year. He'd get 4 tickets normally, and we would tow along usually a friend of mine and that person's dad, maybe my dad's brother would join, perhaps a Smith College colleague, who knows.
I remember in 1988, one of the four games we saw that year was Kevin Romine's first career homerun. It won the game in the bottom of the 9th against the Royals. He had come in earlier for Mike Greenwell, and this was a bit of a disappointment to me at the time. I liked the Gator at that point, and in my 8 year-old mind, Greenwell was destined for the Hall as the next great Sox leftfielder. To have him replaced by Kevin Romine, who seemed to be playing in way too many games and spending most of his time being out in some way, was, well, not popular.
Then he homered, barely if I remember correctly, and all was forgiven for an afternoon.
Fast-forward one year, and again, one of the four games in 1989 we saw was against the Royals. This time Kevin Clutch Romine was starting. 1989 Romine was a bit better than 1988 Romine, but needless to say was struggling to fill in for the hurt Ellis Burks. Romine's average was shockingly over .300 at the time (no, I didn't remember that), but he hadn't left the yard since the last time I had seen him.
You all are seeing where this is going. Romine went yard, a largely inconsequential solo shot, but at that point I witnessed his only two homeruns in his career.
He'd go on to hit three more without my help.
