Welcome to Turn Back the Clock Day at ESPN.com. But instead of wearing a replica jersey that we can sell for $125 in the team shop, our Turn Back the Clock Day involves a simple question: If you could go back in time and see any baseball game, what game would you choose and why?

You can pick from any game from baseball history, any game at all. It can even be one you saw in person but would like to see again.

So what game would you choose? When I asked Don Mattingly this, his immediate response, naturally, was, "Can I change the outcome?"

No. That is the one stipulation of Turn Back the Clock Day. Rule 23.8 (d) clearly states that you cannot alter history in any way whatsoever. Violating this rule creates monstrous havoc with the space-time continuum, as evidenced by every single movie that involves time travel. Worse, it would require constant updates to baseball-reference.com.

While you mull over the possibilities, here are the choices of some major leaguers and other notables, such as actor Jon Hamm of "Mad Men" fame and Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready.

The game chosen most often was Jackie Robinson's major league debut in 1947 when he broke the color barrier. Pirates outfielder Andrew McCutchen and Anaheim reliever LaTroy Hawkins singled that one out, while Mets starter R.A. Dickey included it in a list of three games he'd want to see. Several ESPN.com writers picked it as well.

"It was a memorable moment; and as we know now, it was one of the greatest things that ever happened in professional sports," Hawkins said. "And I would have liked to be in the stands just to be a part of history."

This is who you'd see in the Dodgers' infield on April 15, 1947. From left: John Jorgernsen at third, Pee Wee Reese at short, Ed Stanky at second and Jackie Robinson at first. AP Photo

"I would like to be there just to see the good and the bad. To see what he had to overcome and what he had to deal with," McCutchen said. "It's crazy, because we don't know the half of what he had to do. He's definitely a person that I idolize, and that would be a game I'd like to see."

Along similar lines, Colorado outfielder Carlos Gonzalez said he would pick any of Roberto Clemente's games, probably from the 1971 World Series. "He's a guy that I would have loved to see play," Gonzalez said. "He is one of the guys who represents Latin American baseball I can see from the videos he was pretty amazing."

Of course, not all the games chosen in our survey are so historically or culturally significant.

"I would be interested in that 'record demolish game' where everyone was throwing records on the field," Yankees center fielder Curtis Granderson said. "I've seen highlights, but I would just like to know what happened."

Wait, you don't mean Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park, do you?

"Yeah, that would be a cool one to be a part of and I would definitely throw something on the field," Granderson said. "There would be arguments. 'We were up, we were winning. This would have happened, that wouldn't have happened.' I'd like to just see how things were then and how something like that couldn't happen now."

Look closely, and you'll see a "Disco Sucks" sign in the outfield. Unfortunately, White Sox fans demolished more than bad music on July 12, 1979. AP Photo/Fred Jewell

Seriously? From any game in major league history, Granderson chooses Disco Demolition Night? A promotion that resulted in a riot and a forfeit? Well, OK. But I guarantee no one else would ever choose that one.

"I'd probably pick that Disco Night or Night at the Disco whatever thing," Tampa Bay pitcher David Price said. "I'd like to be able to watch that. Not necessarily be on the field for it, but maybe in the upper deck with a pair of binoculars just to see everything going on. A lot of crazy stuff went on that night. They lit the field on fire. It was just nuts."

Sigh.

Fortunately. McCready expressed zero interest in Disco Demolition Night. Instead, he chose the game in which Lou Gehrig formally retired and called himself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

"I would just like to go back and see baseball in the 1930s. Back when it was in its hey-day," McCready said. "It's still in its hey-day, but back when there was less light around it and just an organ. And no guys coming out with their guitars playing really loud."

Mariners broadcaster and former "Cheers" writer/co-producer Ken Levine opted for a game with a little less music as well.

"Game 7 of the 1960 World Series -- that wild 10-9 Pirates win over the Yankees at Forbes Field on a walk-off home run [before we knew the term 'walk off'] by Bill Mazeroski," Levine answered. "First off, the Yankees lost. And, too, the unlikely Pittsburgh Pirates. Without checking the exact scores, the Pirates won their previous three games 2-1, 3-2 -- scores like that. And the three Yankee victories were something like 18-1, 19-2, 25-1. (I may even be correct, I dunno.)"