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It may look like Ebbets, but Kahn knows better

Regardless of whether Mets fans will be lured to the team's new showplace by the catnip of nostalgia, Roger Kahn's recollections of Ebbets Field on Friday reinforced the sense that virtually every aspect of Brooklyn baseball is as gone as the Dodgers.

The Mets, of course, have evoked the home of their National League forebears in designing the new $800-million playpen that hosted its first...

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