On June 24, Tyler Webb made his major league debut for the Yankees, throwing 1 1/3 shutout innings against the Rangers. He will of course cherish the memory, as did the 19,039 Major League Baseball competitors who preceded him (thanks, Baseball-Reference).
Two days prior, Webb got his first call-up to the majors, another notable milestone. For Webb, though, this day carried a value to which most of his contemporaries couldn’t relate.
At first by happenstance and then by choice, Webb never had attended a major league team sporting event – not MLB, not the NFL, not the NBA and not the NHL – until he was in uniform for that June 22 Angels-Yankees game at Yankee Stadium.