Eimear Ryan: Even in New York, there’s no show like a Croker show
SPECTACLE: The teams on parade before the GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship Final. Photo by Ray McManus/Sportsfile
SATURDAY July 16 in New York. It’s the eve of the All-Ireland hurling final, and I’m headed to an unusual curtain-raiser, on a packed 4 train uptown to Yankee Stadium. Almost everyone else on the train is wearing a white pinstriped baseball jersey. On the backs are the names of current Yankees stars like Stanton, Rizzo and Judge, but also Jeter, Mantle, Ruth – the legends of yesteryear.
Yankee Stadium can hold almost 50,000 punters and it’s a full house tonight. We’re up on the fourth level and I’m reminded, instantly, of the top tier in the Cusack Stand – the nosebleed section, from which the players look like Subbuteo figurines on the grass below.
