A Night With the Best Baseball Team in New York

Baseball|A Night With nan Best Baseball Team successful New York

About a half-hour earlier a mid-August Brooklyn Cyclones game, a family of three, a newsman and a middle-aged man dressed successful a Jedi clothes walked into an elevator astatine Maimonides Park. As nan doorway closed and they began their ascent, nan Jedi turned to nan others and asked, “So, what satellite are you each from?”

“Um, Brooklyn,” responded nan matriarch of nan family. The Jedi proceeded to hum “Mad About Me,” by nan Mos Eisley Cantina location band, Figrin D’an and nan Modal Nodes, arsenic if to show them he was from nan satellite Tatooine.

When nan elevator doors opened and they stepped retired onto nan concourse, they joined hundreds of different Jedi knights and Padawan learners fanning retired crossed nan ballpark, mingling pinch nan specified mortals who came equipped pinch scorebooks, pencils and shot gloves. Out beyond nan right-field wall, successful nan area known arsenic nan Backyard, a fewer 100 others were pounding brews and playing cornhole, blissfully unaware that a shot crippled — nan arena that their summons said they had paid to spot — was astir to begin. The 2 main draws connected this peculiar Saturday were Star Wars Night and nan $50 all-you-can-drink deal.