the 2000 World series
Last night the Mets were supposed to play the Yankees at Yankee Stadium. Inter league play allows these crosstown rivals to playa series for New York fans. Thanks to the weather, they’re playing a doubleheader today instead.
It reminds me of the 2000 World Series...
They called it the Subway Series. The New York Yankees (take the #4 train up to the Bronx to Yankee Stadium -- the old Yankee Stadium) vs. the New York Mets (take the #7 out to Shea Stadium, well before the days of Citi Field). The whole city was excited. Rudy Guiliani, who was then Mayor of NYC and an avid Yankees fan, did his best to promote both teams, even wore both a Yankees cap and Mets cap at the pep rally in City Hall Park.
NYC was truly the baseball capital of the world. The excitement could be felt throughout the city.
Highlights included:
Game one at Yankee Stadium, Don Larsen threw out the ceremonial first pitch, and Yogi Berra caught it (Berra caught Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series).
Game 2, the Roger Clemens/Mike Piazza thing. Earlier in the year, during inter league play,A Clemens pitch hit Piazza in the head. At the world Series, Piazza's bat broke, and Clemens picked up the broken pieces...and threw them at Piazza.
Game 3, the Mets did what no one else had been able to do to the Yankees Dynasty: they won a World Series game. Ultimately the Yankees were the champs 4-1 (and got a victory parade in the Canyon of Heroes), but the Mets did themselves proud.
NYC was truly the baseball capital of the world. The excitement in the city was palatable.
Who would have imagined that the whole mood of the city would be so very different just a year later...
I leave you with another quintessential New York moment.
It reminds me of the 2000 World Series...
They called it the Subway Series. The New York Yankees (take the #4 train up to the Bronx to Yankee Stadium -- the old Yankee Stadium) vs. the New York Mets (take the #7 out to Shea Stadium, well before the days of Citi Field). The whole city was excited. Rudy Guiliani, who was then Mayor of NYC and an avid Yankees fan, did his best to promote both teams, even wore both a Yankees cap and Mets cap at the pep rally in City Hall Park.
NYC was truly the baseball capital of the world. The excitement could be felt throughout the city.
Highlights included:
Game one at Yankee Stadium, Don Larsen threw out the ceremonial first pitch, and Yogi Berra caught it (Berra caught Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series).
Game 2, the Roger Clemens/Mike Piazza thing. Earlier in the year, during inter league play,A Clemens pitch hit Piazza in the head. At the world Series, Piazza's bat broke, and Clemens picked up the broken pieces...and threw them at Piazza.
Game 3, the Mets did what no one else had been able to do to the Yankees Dynasty: they won a World Series game. Ultimately the Yankees were the champs 4-1 (and got a victory parade in the Canyon of Heroes), but the Mets did themselves proud.
NYC was truly the baseball capital of the world. The excitement in the city was palatable.
Who would have imagined that the whole mood of the city would be so very different just a year later...
I leave you with another quintessential New York moment.
My husband was so disappointed (he's a big Mets fan) that last night's game was rained out. It's always great to hear Billy Joel, too. He did a nice job on the National Anthem. Alana ramblinwitham.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteWhen the Dodgers play the Angels, we call it a freeway series. They've never met in the World Series, though (I don't think).
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