Subway Series Awakens New York History
LOU WATERS, CNN ANCHOR: Baseball's World Series moves from New York's Yankee Stadium all the way over to Shea Stadium tonight. Some folks think New Yorkers are making too much of their series.</s>NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR: But as CNN's Jeff Greenfield will tell us, the return of the Subway Series after 44 years is about more than just baseball.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Let's go Yankees!</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You know what the "Mets" stands for? My Entire Team Sucks. JEFF GREENFIELD, CNN SENIOR ANALYST</s>PETE HAMILL, WRITER: The new New York, the New York that has been here for five or six years, which is an extraordinary city -- better than, in my opinion, than it was in the '50s because at least we're hitting race straight on, which we didn't do in the '50s. I mean, so what you see is Pakistani guys with Yankee caps; you see Chinese guys with Mets caps. That's the kind of passports all immigrants always brought here -- what my father brought here, what the Italians and the Jews brought here.</s>JOE TORRE, NEW YORK YANKEES MANAGER: And being a kid brought up in Brooklyn, again, I was spoiled because we always had the Dodgers and the Yankees or the Giants and the Yankees or Giants and somebody, the Dodgers and somebody. But this means something and to me it's exciting and I think the city, being as excited as they are right now, it's supposed to be this way.</s>GREENFIELD: So, to end where we began, what does a New Yorker, caught up in the midst of all this self-congratulation, say to the rest of America?</s>HAMILL: Celebrate them. New York went through its humiliation. It was not flat on its back; it got up to one knee and then it stood and took the count and then it came back. You get up and you go on. And I think that's part of what these two teams represent.