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Friday, June 16 | |||||
Queens-to-Bronx trek involves two trains | |||||
NEW YORK -- The Yankees and Mets might make this a true
Subway Series -- strap-hanging as they shuttle between games of
their two-ballpark doubleheader next month.
Discussions are under way among the teams and New York City to
have subway trains take the teams from Shea Stadium to Yankee
Stadium for their day-night doubleheader July 8.
For the millionaire players, a Subway Special probably would be
a token appearance in the underground. Buses, cars and limos are
the preferred ground transportation of major leaguers.
"It'd be different; it'd be something new," said Yankees
catcher Jim Leyritz, who used to take the subway to the ballpark in
the Bronx. "I'm sure they're going to come up with a lot of
creative things to do for something that hasn't happened in 97
years."
The last time major league teams played two games at different
ballparks on the same day was Sept. 7, 1903, according to the Elias
Sports Bureau, baseball's statistician. That was a year before New
York City's subway system opened.
The New York Giants won 6-4 at Brooklyn's Washington Park in the
opener, then lost 3-0 in the afternoon at the Polo Grounds.
To make up last Sunday's rainout at Yankee Stadium, the Mets and
Yankees agreed that after their regularly scheduled game at Shea
Stadium at 1:15 p.m. on July 8, they would play the makeup at
Yankee Stadium at 8:15 p.m.
"There are discussions," Transit Authority spokesman Al
O'Leary said. "Whether or not it will work, I don't know. It's
probably more of a question of whether the players will go for it.
We can do it."
To make the trek by track from Shea in Queens to Yankee Stadium
in the Bronx involves two trains. The players would get on a
special No. 7 train outside the right-field corner at Shea Stadium,
take it to Grand Central, then change to the No. 4 line, which
would leave them outside the left-field corner at Yankee Stadium.
Or they could get off a stop later, at Fifth Avenue and 42nd
Street, and switch to the D train, which also stops outside Yankee
Stadium.
Players, used to free travel, probably would cry foul if they
had to whip out MetroCards to pay their $1.50 fares as they go
through the turnstiles. | ALSO SEE N.Y. double play has Shea by day, Bronx at night |