Downing Stadium on Randalls Island! What a joint that was.
Metropolitan Oval, was that the place in Flushing? I used to play some bloodletting summer league games out there in the early 1980's
Also found this one spot in Central Park, kinda near the softball fields in from the 72nd street entrance if I remember right. Used to play sweaty, dirty pickup games all day there. 50 gallon drums as goals. Would cool off with one dollar cans of ice cold beer bought from entreprenuers rolling through the park. Also got a different kind of cool with another one dollar a pop product also offered by (sometimes the same) entreprenuers. Mexican laughing tobacco. Pre-Guliani. Anything went. Made this buddy, a big Scottish dude named Ian (never knew his last name). We would get on the same team and hammer on the Spanish guys all day, then hose off with a faucet next to Tavern on the Green, change into jeans and shirts, and head across town east to First Avenue and drink the evening away in the sports bars over there. We'd scout around for pairs of nasty city chicks. Made for a couple of really long summer Saturdays. Goddam if that wasn't an exciting summer! Nothing on Earth like Manhattan NYC!
Metropolitan Oval, was that the place in Flushing? I used to play some bloodletting summer league games out there in the early 1980's
Also found this one spot in Central Park, kinda near the softball fields in from the 72nd street entrance if I remember right. Used to play sweaty, dirty pickup games all day there. 50 gallon drums as goals. Would cool off with one dollar cans of ice cold beer bought from entreprenuers rolling through the park. Also got a different kind of cool with another one dollar a pop product also offered by (sometimes the same) entreprenuers. Mexican laughing tobacco. Pre-Guliani. Anything went. Made this buddy, a big Scottish dude named Ian (never knew his last name). We would get on the same team and hammer on the Spanish guys all day, then hose off with a faucet next to Tavern on the Green, change into jeans and shirts, and head across town east to First Avenue and drink the evening away in the sports bars over there. We'd scout around for pairs of nasty city chicks. Made for a couple of really long summer Saturdays. Goddam if that wasn't an exciting summer! Nothing on Earth like Manhattan NYC!
