By Ed Shakespeare
Play’s the Thing: Brooklyn baseball has long had its share of “Babes” — Babe Herman, Babe Phelps, Babe Dahlgren and even Babe Ruth, who was a coach with the Dodgers in 1938.
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By Ed Shakespeare
Cyclones: Joe Gajdos, an unemployed machine shop worker, went to Keyspan Park with some friends for the first time in his life on July 13 — and ended up being the team’s one-millionth fan.
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Cyclones: The Brooklyn Papers’ columnist Ed Shakespeare (right) throws out the ceremonial first pitch during Brooklyn Papers Day at Keyspan Park, where the Brooklyn Cyclones capped a 3-2 10th inning victory with a “bunt home run” by Derran Watts. Above, Watts scores the winning run after his bunt was misplayed into a four-base error on the Staten Island Yankees’ pitcher, who fielded the ball and threw it into right field.
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