[granite]

I was at the game in Yankee Stadium (10/01/1961) when Maris hit #61, a moment I will never forget. A few years later Eddie Kraneool visited my sixth-grade class, which had the same teacher as Kranepool, and took us all to the Polo Grounds for one of the Met's first games before they moved to Shea. I then became a fan of the "Amazing Mets". "You gotta believe". I lost interest in MLB quite some time ago for all the previously named reasons.

[Impala64ssa]

When my dad played in the minors he knew Ed Kranepool. Kranepool graduated from Monroe HS, a few years after my mom went there. I had cousins who lived near Shea. I remember seeing it under construction. It was across the Grand Central Pkwy from another great institution, the Lemon Ice King of Corona 🙂. I still miss Shea