Cyclones Take Two From Staten Island In Doubleheader
by richard kagan
     It was a picture perfect evening last Friday night at Coney Island. There was a late summer wind at the oceanfront, and the lights from Coney Island Amusement Park were twinkling in the night just over the left field wall at KeySpan Park. KeySpan was full and baseball was in the air. The Brooklyn Cyclones and the Staten Island Yankees, both A level Minor League teams for the New York Mets and Yankees, respectively, were facing off to complete a suspended game and play a seven-inning game in a modified twin bill.
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2 Mets Teams Visit Vets
     On Aug. 11, former New York Mets stars (back row, l. to r.) Ron Darling, George Foster, Gary Carter and Raphael Santana, teamed up with the Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association (EPVA) Mets, a wheelchair softball team cosponsored by the Mets and Queens-based EPVA, to visit inpatients at the Bronx Veterans Administration (VA) Hospital.
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