I don't speak Spanish so I can't talk to a lot af Met ballpayers anymore now but as a little boy who lived at 844 Flatbush Avenue in a 3-floor walkup a long time ago I got to Ebbets Field with my father. Monster seats were $2.50 reserved along the lines just behind the $3.50 box seats. You were IN THE GAME and up close. I went to a World Serious game in 1953 and watched Brooklyn win it. Those were $7.50 seats and I had no idea that anybody could have that much money to watch a baseball game.
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In 1962 as a teen I used to hump and haul with the Bee Line bus out of Hempstead to snag the E train in Jamaica to the 7th Avenue stop to grab the D train up to the Polo Grounds. A bag of sandwiches and $1.25 and a can of soda wrapped in aluminum (wrapped by your mother) got you general admission and sometimes a doubleheader on a weekend or holiday.
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My old man would never take me to Polo Grounds when the NY Giants played baseball there. He hated the Yankees, the Giants, and the German that hit him with 4 rounds in Italy, in that order.