UNITED STATES: NEW YORK METS TO MEET THE NEW YORK YANKEES IN FIRST "SUBWAY" BASEBALL WORLD SERIES IN 44 YEARS

Record ID: 337989

  • Title: UNITED STATES: NEW YORK METS TO MEET THE NEW YORK YANKEES IN FIRST "SUBWAY" BASEBALL WORLD SERIES IN 44 YEARS
  • Date: 18th October 2000
  • Summary: (NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES)(OCTOBER 18, 2000/FILE)(REUTERS MATERIAL - ACCESS ALL/ POOL - ACCESS ALL) 1. MODELL'S SPORTING GOOD STORE IN MANHATTAN 2. METS FAN LOOKING AT NY METS MERCHANDISE 3. YANKEES FAN SORTING THROUGH NY YANKEE T-SHIRTS 4. (SOUNDBITE)(English) METS FAN SAYING: "The Mets are definitely going to take it, the pitching staff, got the hitting now, we are going to take the Yankees, (YANKEE FAN IN BACKGROUND) SAYING: "It's not going to happen." 5. (SOUNDBITE)(English) YANKEE FAN SAYING: "It's not going to happen, there is where it is at, right there (POINTING TO A YANKEE JERSEY)...see that.." (YANKEE STADIUM, BRONX, NEW YORK)(OCTOBER 18, 2000)(REUTERS MATERIAL) 6. YANKEE STADIUM 7. SIGN ON YANKEE STADIUM "ALL ABOARD." 8. #4 SUBWAY TRAIN LEAVES YANKEE STADIUM 9. MANHATTAN SUBWAY MAP SHOWING THE 4 TRAIN LEAVING YANKEE STADIUM, CONNECTING TO THE 7 TRAIN TO SHEA STADIUM (SHEA STADIUM, QUEENS, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) 10. SHEA STADIUM FROM NUMBER 7 TRAIN (MANHATTAN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES)(OCTOBER 18TH, 2000)(REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 11. (SOUNDBITE) (English) JOSEPH DORENSON, PROFESSOR OF HISTORY - LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY SAYING: "I do feel New York is the Empire city, the Global city, and baseball deserves a subway series, and New York deserves to be at the center of the universe once again." (MANHATTAN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES)(FILE OCTOBER 1999) (POOL VIDEO - ACCESS ALL) 12. NEW YORK YANKEES PARADE (CITY HALL, MANHATTAN, NEW YORK)(OCTOBER 18TH, 2000) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 13. (SOUNDBITE)(English) NEW YORK MAYOR RUDOLPH GULIANI SAYING: "The city should get to experience this, this is a wonderful thing. I guess there isn't a single player on either team was alive when the last subway series took place, it was 44 years ago. They have got a couple of old players, but nobody is 44 years old, so this is a wonderful thing." (QUEENS, NEW YORK)(OCTOBER 18TH, 2000)(REUTERS PICTURES) 14. NUMBER 7 SUBWAY ARRIVES AT SHEA STADIUM 15. INTERIOR RAIN SHOTS OF SHEA STADIUM 16. NEW YORK METS OUTFIELDER DARYL HAMILTON SAYING "It's weird because when you are in the World Series, then granted it is my first time, but I am sure in the World Series on the visiting side, you get away from it all, and you can kind of relax and take it easy, but there is no getting away from anything here, home is like on the road, so it is going to be kind of crazy, we expect a lot of fan enthusiasm going on and we are going to keep it at that, but from my standpoint, if you are calling me for tickets...don't." 17. INTERTER SHOT OF NY SUBWAY Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
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  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVA4XET5BH2QHXME88UZQJ3ZXLQO
  • Story Text: For the first time in 44 years, New York City will be
    hosting a Subway Series in Baseball when the New York Yankees
    battle the New York Mets on Saturday in Game One of the World
    Series.



    Thrilled New York baseball fans lined up on Wednesday
    (October 18) to buy Yankees and Mets "Subway Series" T-shirts
    and caps, traded barbs, raised old antagonism and relished the
    prospect of the first World Series between two New York teams
    in 44 years.

    The Yankees-Mets clash revives memories for older fans of
    a golden era for baseball in the city when New York teams
    appeared in five of the six World Series between 1951 and 1956
    and spectators shuttled to the "Subway Series" by train and
    trolley.

    The best-of-seven series starting at Yankee Stadium in the
    Bronx on Saturday night promises lots of fun for fans, a
    business boom for bars and takeout restaurants, some raucous
    behaviour, and arguments among family members at dinner tables
    and colleagues in offices over their different, deeply-held
    baseball allegiances.

    Excitement was palpable on Wednesday morning at a sports
    shop near Grand Central Station selling team merchandise. And
    all three tabloid newspaper front-page headlines blared "All
    Aboard!" Even the normally staid New York Times put a red
    banner above its masthead: "It's a Subway Series! Yankees Join
    Mets."
    Dubbed the "Subway Series" because many fans will take the
    No. 4 or the D train to Yankee Stadium in the Bronx for the
    night and weekend games and the no. 7 train to Shea Stadium in
    Queens, the term harks back to the days before stadium car
    parking lots when almost all fans travelled to games by subway
    or trolley.

    Historian Joseph Dorenson, professor of history at Long
    Island University, says there has been a void in New York
    baseball for 44 year and a subway series is well-deserved. "I
    do feel New York is the Empire city, the Global city, and
    baseball deserves a subway series, and New York deserves to be
    at the center of the universe once again."
    Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, a lifelong Yankees fan who has
    honoured each member of the most recent Yankees World Series
    winners of 1996, 1998 and 1999 with a ceremonial key to the
    city, said the World Series this year would not be as
    interesting for the rest of the country.

    "The city should get to experience this, this is a
    wonderful thing. I guess there isn't a single player on either
    team was alive when teh last subway series took place, it was
    44 years ago. They have got a couple of old players, but
    nobody is 44 years old, so this is a wonderful thing,"Giuliani
    said on Wednesday.

    An optional practice for the New York Mets was rained out
    Wednesday at Shea Stadium, but Mets oufielder had plenty to
    say about the clash with its crosstown rivals."It's weird
    because when you are in the World Series, then granted it is
    my first time, but I am sure in the World Series on the
    visiting side, you get away from it all, and you can kind of
    relax and take it easy, but there is no gettin away from
    anything here, home is like on teh road, so it is going to be
    kind of crazy, we expect a lot of fan enthusiasm going on and
    we are going to keep it at that, but from my standpoint, if
    you are calling me for tickets...don't." Hamilton said at the
    media filled Mets lockeroom Wednesday.


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