How many games have you seen?

[Dale]

How many Hog baseball games have you seen? Obviously not everyone knows exactly how many, but take a guess.

[otherhogbusguy]

100's

[HomerHog®]

Somewhere around 300-350. Since my freshman year at the UofA (95 baseball season), I've missed about 1 or 2 home game per year. 12 home post-season games. Several trips to Tulsa and Springfield.

[dacooks]

100's is a good answer OHBG.....I probably only got to a dozen or so games each year when I first moved here in 1985, but I have rarely missed a game since 88 or so.
I do NOT long for the old field, banging homers off of HPER or bleacher butt.

[Dr. HeathHog]

Let's see 9 years as a student at roughly 25 home games per year. Allow post season and ORU/SMS games to fill in misses fo basketball. Throw in maybe a dozen before I was a student. I'll say about 250. Or more simply it should be about 75% (9/12) of HomerHogs.

[otherhogbusguy]

dacooks said:

100's is a good answer OHBG.....I probably only got to a dozen or so games each year when I first moved here in 1985, but I have rarely missed a game since 88 or so.
I do NOT long for the old field, banging homers off of HPER or bleacher butt.

i mean mid hundreds. since 1986.
thats 20 seasons for me, average about 20-25 a year...more in the recent years, thank goodness
and i dont long for old George Cole Field either. i couldnt afford to get in, i had to sit on the rail in left. and even if i could get in, that place must be built on a cold water spring, because it was always freezing there. i am glad we now have the green chairs, that soak up sun.

[HomerHog®]

Yeah, I was figuring 25 per year for 12 years, but we have had seasons with more than 30 home games. We will return to those good times the next two years.

[georgecolevet]

remember in the old park when they would hit a foul ball into the street or into the parking lot? and some player would have to run out and chase it down?

you learned early parking close was not a good idea.

[otherhogbusguy]

georgecolevet said:

remember in the old park when they would hit a foul ball into the street or into the parking lot? and some player would have to run out and chase it down?

you learned early parking close was not a good idea.

i remember thinking to myself, with all the things players had to do back then (chase, rake, water, tarp)...i was surprised they could play baseball...i figured they would be worn out

[HomerHog®]

My favorite thing about George Cole was opposing outfielders not knowing how to play the leftfield corner. We tried to tell them, but they never listened. To a man, they all ran to the corner to try to chase a ground ball or liner down the line. Every stinking one of them had the ball shoot between their legs or over their heads. Kenderick Moore and Kit Pellow knew how to play it. They sat back almost to the alley and let it come to them. If they were too close, they yelled over to Chris Clark in center to get ready.

Oh, that and "Rice Patty".

[Dr. HeathHog]

For those looking to add them up. Here's my manual count of how many home games we've had going back to 1985.


year Home games total
2007 0 0
2006 29 29 Regional
2005 28 57
2004 38 95 Regional/Super
2003 30 125 DVH
2002 30 155
2001 24 179 (6 SEC road series?)
2000 34 213
1999 33 246 post season
1998 31 277
1997 32 309
1996 31 340 Baum
1995 30 370
1994 35 405
1993 35 440
1992 34 474 SEC
1991 34 508
1990 39 547
1989 32 579
1988 41 620
1987 34 654
1986 36 690
1985 40 730

[TikiHog]

I'm at about 250 but most of them was in they were in the SWC.

[Hoggfather]

otherhogbusguy said:

dacooks said:

100's is a good answer OHBG.....I probably only got to a dozen or so games each year when I first moved here in 1985, but I have rarely missed a game since 88 or so.
I do NOT long for the old field, banging homers off of HPER or bleacher butt.

i mean mid hundreds. since 1986.
thats 20 seasons for me, average about 20-25 a year...more in the recent years, thank goodness
and i dont long for old George Cole Field either. i couldnt afford to get in, i had to sit on the rail in left. and even if i could get in, that place must be built on a cold water spring, because it was always freezing there. i am glad we now have the green chairs, that soak up sun.

heck yea...I remember watching many a game from that rail...made my heckling bones there....I once asked a Wichita State CF "Hey..what the hell is a shocker anyway"....

He turned around to give me a detailed awsner and I said "haven't you ever heard of a rhetorical question genius ?"

He didn't much like me....I think his last name was WIlma if I remember right.

[Dale]

287 for me, first one around 91 or 92.

[Charlie]

257 since 99