re: What is the biggest non Auburn game you have been to?

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Game 4 of the 1996 world series... second to last game ever at fulton co... john smoltz v andy petite.

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If it was the Smoltz vs Pettite 1-0 contest, that would have been Game #5, which was the final game at FCS. I was there as well.

I was also there a month earlier for the final regular season game against the Expos - by the strangest of coincidences, the final regular season batter was Moises Alou for Montreal, who was at that time being managed by his dad Felipe, who back in April 1966 was the first regular season batter in stadium history.

I practically grew up in that ugly hunk of concrete. I remember as a kid thinking that the voice of the Braves' PA announcer Marshall Mann was the actual stadium speaking - I'll forever associate the sound of his voice with that place. Appropriately, he retired at the same time they closed the joint, and sadly died of cancer before they threw out the first pitch at Turner Field the following April.