PORT STREET LUCIE — As someone who grew up idolizing Bernie Williams and went to Yankee Stadium games to get his baseball fix, Harrison Bader’s memories of the Mets from his childhood are scant.
Although he attended three or four games at Shea Stadium (many of his mother’s family members were Mets fans), Bader spent his youth in Bronxville and attended Horace Mann School in Riverdale. , it was all about the Yankees. Specifically, it was the Yankees’ star players that fascinated him.
Bader, 29, now the Mets’ starting center fielder, didn’t hate it growing up, but he’s curious about an organization he says was largely ignored.
This was in the early 2000s, after the Yankees had won their fourth World Series in five years. Bader vaguely remembers the 2000 Subway Series, when the Yankees defeated the Mets for their fourth championship, but his fandom didn’t really develop until much later. was.
