Back Stories: Bobby Valentine On The 2000 Subway Series

NEW YORK (WCBS 880) – Former New York Mets manager Bobby Valentine remembers the 2000 Subway Series as a "special event."

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It was a time when the city was consumed with baseball.

"On every street corner, every taxi cab driver, every truck driver, every waiter, every waitress, bartender and person that I came in contact with during that week knew exactly what was happening and they were all invested in it," Valentine says.