Shannon Forde’s impact on New York sports fabric still felt — and greatly missed

Back in the day, the Phillies/Mets rivalry was 18 games a year. That meant nine games at Shea Stadium for George A. King III, working for a newspaper in the Philadelphia suburbs, and nine times for the veteran baseball scribe to take great delight in driving his fellow members of the Phillies beat batty.

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