Gotham is going gonzo over a Subway Series, but not everyone is celebrating an all-New York Fall Classic. The victory celebration in the Bronx came one day after the New York Mets were basking in the glow of their win of the National League pennant over the St. Louis Cardinals at Shea Stadium in Queens. It's just going to be like no other World Series that we have played before.
Fans waiting more than four decades for a one-city showdown are delirious with delight.
But some say, no matter how you slice it, a Big Apple series is probably going to be rotten. An intracity World Series has been played 15 times before, including 13 times in New York when the Yankees staged cross-town battles with the Giants six times and the Brooklyn Dodgers seven times. Yankee pitcher Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 Fall Classic against the Brooklyn Dodgers. Left fielder Sandy Amoros' amazing catch of a Yogi Berra fly ball, which helped the Dodgers clinch their first and only championship in Brooklyn in 1955. After the last all-New York World Series in 1956, the Dodgers moved to southern California and it wasn't until 1962 that the Mets set up shop in Queens.