WINDHAM – Saturday, Sept. 14, was one of the best days of Florence Evelyn Emerson’s life. At age 92, her dream of attending a Red Sox game came true.

Sitting above home plate at Fenway Park in Boston for a classic match-up between the Red Sox and New York Yankees last weekend was by far the best birthday present she has ever received, said Ledgewood Manor nursing home activities director Kim Mowatt, on behalf of Emerson.

Ledgewood Manor provided transportation to the game, which also happened to fall the day before Emerson’s birthday. Mowatt, who said she had also never seen the Red Sox live, was Emerson’s chaperone to the game.

“I wanted to see them [Red Sox] all my life,” the Ledgeview Manor resident said Monday.

“She was cold and all bundled up,” Mowatt said, of Emerson. “I asked her if she wanted to leave early, and she said, ‘No.’ She loved it.”

“What a place!” said Emerson, a lifelong Red Sox fan. “It was more incredible than I imagined. I’ve never been to a place like that before.”

The trip came about after Mowatt submitted a story earlier this year about Emerson for an essay contest conducted by the Maine Health Care Association. Nurses are encouraged to describe a resident’s dream and why it’s important to the resident. Last week, she was presented with three tickets for the game.

“She has never missed a game on television,” said Lloyd Bennett, a volunteer at the nursing home, who drove Mowatt and Emerson. “She had never been to Fenway Park.”

Emerson was born in Massachusetts and grew up in South Portland, where she attended school. Both of her parents were Red Sox fans.

In her story, Mowatt wrote, “Florence’s whole family would gather ’round the radio whenever there was a game on.”

According to Mowatt, Emerson told her that her two favorite things so far in life have been to watch her own children participate in sports and, of course, watching the Red Sox play.

“She laughs as she says she spent a lot of her 52 years of marriage listening to or watching the Red Sox with her husband and her six children,” Mowatt wrote to the health care association.

Emerson has a variety of Red Sox memorabilia, Mowatt said, including pillows, blankets, stuffed animals, a baseball, posters, shirts, jackets and even Red Sox balloons.

Emerson picked a good night to attend, since the Red Sox beat the Yankees 5-1. At the game, Emerson enjoyed pepperoni pizza, soda and caramel popcorn and took home a Red Sox blanket as a souvenir to add to her collection.

To this day, Mowatt said, Emerson has never missed a game on TV and is often joined by a family member at the nursing home to help cheer the team on. Based on Saturday’s game, there isn’t just one memory she will always remember.

“It’s impossible to name one,” Emerson said. “I loved it all.”

Florence Emerson, 92, a resident at Ledgewood Manor in Windham, sits in the stands at her first Red Sox game last Saturday.Florence Emerson, an avid baseball fan, is presented with Red Sox tickets at Ledgewood Manor last week.